Arthur E. Bryson

Academic

1925 –

69

Who is Arthur E. Bryson?

Arthur Earl Bryson, Jr. is the Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory".

He was a member of the U.S. Navy V-12 program at Iowa State College, and received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering there in 1946. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1951. His thesis An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs was advised by Hans W. Liepmann.

Bryson was the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho.

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Born
1925
Also known as
  • Arthur Bryson
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Stanford University
  • California Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • United States of America

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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