George Zames

George Zames
Born(1934-01-07)January 7, 1934
DiedAugust 10, 1997(1997-08-10) (aged 63)
NationalityCanadian
Polish
Alma materMIT
Imperial College
McGill University
Known forH-infinity methods in control theory
AwardsKillam Prize
IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award
Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsControl theory
InstitutionsMcGill University
NASA
Harvard University
MIT
Doctoral advisorNorbert Wiener
Yuk-Wing Lee
Other academic advisorsColin Cherry
John Hugh Westcott

George Zames (January 7, 1934 – August 10, 1997) was a Polish-Canadian 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.[1]

  1. ^ S. Mitter; A. Tannenbaum (1998). "The Legacy of George Zames" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 43 (5): 591. doi:10.1109/TAC.1998.668826. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2008-07-05.