1. George Zames was a Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
11 Facts About George Zames
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George Zames indicated later that he and his family owe their lives to the transit visa provided by the Japanese Consul to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara.
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In Shanghai, George Zames continued his schooling, and in 1948, the family emigrated to Canada.
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In 1956, George Zames entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start his doctoral studies, and in 1960 earned a Sc.
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George Zames was advised by Norbert Wiener and Yuk-Wing Lee.
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From 1960 to 1965, George Zames held various teaching positions at MIT and Harvard University.
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In 1965, George Zames received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to the NASA Electronic Research Center, where he founded the Office of Control Theory and Applications.
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In 1969, it was announced that NASA ERC was to be closed, and George Zames joined the newly established Department of Transportation Research Center in 1970.
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In 1972, George Zames spent a sabbatical at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and in 1974, he returned to McGill University to become a professor and eventually the MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering until his death in 1997.
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George Zames's research focused on imprecisely modelled systems using the input-output method, an approach that is distinct from the state space representation that dominated control theory for several decades.
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The International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control published in 2000 a special issue in George Zames's honour, including a complete list of his publications.