Society for General Systems Research
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The Society for General Systems Research (SGSR) is predecessor of the current International Society for the Systems Sciences
(ISSS), known to be one the first interdisciplinary and international co-operations in the field of systems theory and systems science. This organization was initiated in 1954 as "Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory", got formally underway as "Society for General Systems Research" and was eventually renamed in 1988.
International Society for the Systems Sciences
The International Society for the Systems Sciences is a world-wide organization for systems sciences.- Overview :The initial purpose of the society was "to encourage the development of theoretical systems which are applicable to more than one of the traditional departments of knowledge."The idea...
(ISSS), known to be one the first interdisciplinary and international co-operations in the field of systems theory and systems science. This organization was initiated in 1954 as "Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory", got formally underway as "Society for General Systems Research" and was eventually renamed in 1988.
Other SGSR members
Other initial SGSR members in 1956/57, a selection:- Franz AlexanderFranz AlexanderFranz Gabriel Alexander was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology.- Life :...
- Harold Homer AndersonHarold Homer AndersonHarold Homer Anderson was an American research professor of psychology at Michigan State University, who published on child psychology, clinical psychology, personality, and cross-national research....
- William Ross AshbyWilliam Ross AshbyW. Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby....
3: 1962 - Arthur J. BachrachArthur J. BachrachArthur J. Bachrach is an American psychologist and administrator, who was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, and Director of the Environmental Stress Program and Chair of Psychophysiology at the Naval Medical Research Institute at the Naval Medical...
- Chester BarnardChester BarnardChester Irving Barnard was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies. His landmark 1938 book, Functions of the Executive, sets out a theory of organization and of the functions of executives in...
- Kenneth E. BouldingKenneth E. BouldingKenneth Ewart Boulding was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was...
1: 1957-58 - Ludwig von BertalanffyLudwig von BertalanffyKarl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian-born biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory . GST is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics, and other fields...
- Nathaniel A. BuchwaldNathaniel A. BuchwaldNathaniel A. Buchwald was an American neuroscientist, educator and administrator, who was Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles...
- Eugene BurdickEugene BurdickEugene L. Burdick , was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American and Fail-Safe and author of The 480 ....
- Melvin CalvinMelvin CalvinMelvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...
- Yuen Ren ChaoYuen Ren ChaoChao Yuen Ren was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar....
- Walter Robert Corti
- Stuart C. DoddStuart C. DoddStuart Carter Dodd was an American sociologist and an educator, who published research on the Middle East and on mathematical sociology, and was a pioneer in scientific polling.- Biography :Stuart Dodd graduated from Princeton University in 1926...
- Hugo O. EngelmannHugo O. EngelmannHugo Otto Engelmann was an American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist. Throughout his work he emphasized the significance of history.- Biography :...
- Merrill M. FloodMerrill M. FloodMerrill Meeks Flood was an American mathematician, notable for developing, with Melvin Dresher, the basis of the game theoretical Prisoner's dilemma model of cooperation and conflict while being at RAND in 1950 Merrill Meeks Flood (1908 – 1991) was an American mathematician, notable for...
- Frank Fremont-SmithFrank Fremont-SmithFrank Fremont-Smith was an American administrator, executive with the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, president of British General Rees's World Federation of Mental Health, known together with Lawrence K...
- Ralph W. GerardRalph W. GerardRalph Waldo Gerard was an American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia.-Biography:...
- Robert S. HartmanRobert S. HartmanRobert Schirokauer Hartman was a logician and philosopher. His primary field of study was scientific axiology and he is known as its original theorist...
- Garrett HardinGarrett HardinGarrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment"...
- Kenneth HarwoodKenneth HarwoodKenneth A. Harwood is an American administrator, information and telecommunication theorist and Adjunct Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, a former President of the BEA, known for his work on the general theory of communication, and known as one of the leading scholars of the...
- Cuthbert HurdCuthbert HurdCuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.-Life:...
- Marjorie KendigMarjorie KendigMarjorie Kendig Gates , best known as M . Kendig, was an American administrator, director of the Institute of General Semantics from 1950 until 1965, and co-worker of Alfred Korzybski who completed his collected writings after Korzybski's death in 1950.Marjorie Kendig was one of the founders of the...
- Karl William KappKarl William KappKarl William Kapp was a German-American economist, one of the founders of Ecological economics and one of the leading 20th century institutional economists...
- Charles A. McClellandCharles A. McClellandCharles A. McClelland is an American political systems analyst and International Relations Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco State University, who was among the first to introduce General Systems Theory in the field of International Relations....
2: 1959-61
- Richard L. MeierRichard L. MeierRichard Louis Meier, is an US regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, urban scholar, and futurist, who was Professor in the College of Environmental Design at University of California at Berkeley. He was an early thinker on sustainability in planning, and recognized as a leading figure in...
- Karl MenningerKarl MenningerKarl Augustus Menninger , was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.- Biography :...
- James Grier MillerJames Grier MillerJames Grier Miller was an American biologist, a pioneer of systems science, who originated the modern use of the term "behavioral science", founded and directed the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, and originated the living systems theory.-...
12: 1973 - Elwood MurrayElwood MurrayElwood Murray was an American administrator and scientist in the field of speech communications and general semantics.- Biography :...
- Jean PiagetJean PiagetJean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....
- Anatol RapoportAnatol RapoportAnatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
4: 1965 - Milton RubinMilton RubinMilton D. Rubin was an American systems engineer and inventor, who was president of the Society for General Systems Research in 1968.- Biography :In 1914 Milton Rubin was born in Boston and attended Boston Latin School...
7 : 1968 - Herbert A. Simon
- Geoffrey Vickers 16: 1977