John Westcott

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Professor
John Westcott
FRS FREng
Born
John Hugh Westcott

(1920-11-03)3 November 1920
Died10 October 2014(2014-10-10) (aged 93)
NationalityBritish
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1983)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsControl Systems
InstitutionsImperial College London
Thesis Studies in Analysis of Servomechanisms with the Development of a New Performance Criterion  (1951)
Doctoral advisorColin Cherry[2]
Doctoral students

John Hugh Westcott (3 November 1920 – 10 October 2014)[1] was a British scientist specialising in control systems and Professor of Computing and Automation at Imperial College London.

  1. ^ a b Mayne, David Quinn (2015). "John Hugh Westcott 3 November 1920 — 10 October 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61. Royal Society publishing: 541–554. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0017. ISSN 0080-4606.
  2. ^ a b John Westcott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project