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George B. Dantzig
Pages 100-107

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... These developments were essential to the emerging field of operations research, which was developed by British scientists during World War II. Linear programming was barely mentioned in early books and reports on operations research, but, before long, it became a mainstay of research methods and applications in the field.
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... He was awarded the Silver Medal of the British Operational Research Society and the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology from Technion University. In 1975, President Ford presented him with the National Medal of Science.
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... In June 1941, prior to defending his dissertation, George accepted a job in Washington with the Army Air Force Combat Analysis Branch of Statistical Control. Thus he did not receive his Ph.D.
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... He remained with Project SCOOP until June 1952 when he joined the RAND Corporation as a research mathematician. George's accomplishments in his research for the Air Force included the first statement of the linear-programming problem and the recognition of its applicability to a wide range of decision problems; the invention of the simplex method (IEEE named the simplex algorithm one of the top 10 algorithms of the twentieth century)
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From page 105...
... industries directly or indirectly use linear programming to aid them in the allocation of their resources and decision making; that all computer systems (mainframes and PCs) "learn" how to solve linear-programming problems as soon as they are "born"; that the simplex method is imbedded into all PC spreadsheet systems; that national economic planning for the third world and developing countries is being guided by linearprogramming techniques; that strategic and tactical military planning, management of military personnel, and a wide variety of logistical (peacetime and combat)
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... , Aron Dantzig, and Jeremy Dantzig; two great-grandchildren, Ivy and Brian Zelvy; and Anne's brother Daniel Shaw of Baltimore, Maryland.
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