IFORS' Operational Research Hall of FameAbraham Charnes

Key positions: Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Carnegie Institute of Technology (1948–1955); Professor of Mathematics and Industrial Management, Purdue University (1955–1957); Walter P. Murphy Professor of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University (1957–1968); Jesse H. Jones Professor and University System Professor (1968–1984); John P. Harbin Chair in the College of Business Administration (1984–1988); Professor Emeritus of Management Science and Information Systems (1988–1992), The University of Texas at Austin. Awards: US Navy Medal for Public Service (1977); von Neumann Theory prize of ORSA and TIMS (1982); Harold Larnder Memorial Award, Canadian Operations Research Society; Fellow of ORSA, AAAS, and the Econometric Society.