George Zames
| George Zames | |
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| Born |
January 7, 1934 Łódź, Poland |
| Died | August 10, 1997 (aged 63) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian Polish |
| Fields | Control theory |
| Institutions |
McGill University NASA Harvard University MIT |
| Alma mater |
MIT Imperial College McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Norbert Wiener Yuk-Wing Lee |
| Other academic advisors |
Colin Cherry John Hugh Westcott |
| Notable awards |
Killam Prize IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1996) |
George Zames (January 7, 1934 – August 10, 1997) was a control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zames is known for his fundamental contributions to the theory of robust control, and was credited for the development of various well-known results such as small-gain theorem, passivity theorem, circle criterion in input–output form, and most famously, H-infinity methods.
George Zames was born on January 7, 1934 in Łódź, Poland to a Jewish family. Growing up in Warsaw, Zames and his family escaped the city at the onset of World War II, and moved to Kobe (Japan), through Lithuania and Siberia, and finally to the Anglo-French International Settlement in Shanghai. Zames indicated later that he and his family owe their lives to the transit visa provided by the Japanese Consul to Lithuania, Senpo Sugihara. In Shanghai, Zames continued his schooling, and in 1948, the family emigrated to Canada.
Zames entered McGill University at the age of 15 and received a B.Eng. degree in Engineering Physics. Graduating at the top of his class, Zames won an Athlone Fellowship to study in England, and moved to the Imperial College. Graduating in two years, his advisors included Colin Cherry, Dennis Gabor, and John Hugh Westcott. In 1956, Zames entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start his doctoral studies, and in 1960 earned a Sc.D. for a thesis titled Nonlinear Operations of System Analysis. He was advised by Norbert Wiener and Yuk-Wing Lee.
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