John V. Breakwell

John Valentine Breakwell
Born	1917 Switzerland
Died	April 16, 1991
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	Control theory
Notable awards	Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1983)

John V. Breakwell (1917 – April 16, 1991) was a noted American control theorist and a Professor of Astronautics at Stanford University. He is remembered for his contributions to the "science and applications of astrodynamics, for discovery of flight-trajectory optimization, and for outstanding academic service." He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981 and a recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1983.^[1]

References

↑ "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved February 10, 2013.

External links

NAE profile

AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award

1979–2000	Hendrik Wade Bode (1979) Nathaniel B. Nichols (1980) Charles Stark Draper (1981) Irving Lefkowitz (1982) John V. Breakwell (1983) Richard E. Bellman (1984) Harold Chestnut (1985) John Zaborszky (1986) John C. Lozier (1987) Walter R. Evans (1988) Roger W. Brockett (1989) Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. (1990) John G. Truxal (1991) Rutherford Aris (1992) Eliahu I. Jury (1993) Jose B. Cruz, Jr. (1994) Michael Athans (1995) Elmer G. Gilbert (1996) Rudolf E. Kalman (1997) Lotfi A. Zadeh (1998) Yu-Chi Ho (1999) W. Harmon Ray (2000)

2001–present	A.V. Balakrishnan (2001) Petar V. Kokotovic (2002) Kumpati S. Narendra (2003) Harold J. Kushner (2004) Gene F. Franklin (2005) Tamer Başar (2006) Sanjoy K. Mitter (2007) Pravin Varaiya (2008) George Leitmann (2009) Dragoslav D. Šiljak (2010) Manfred Morari (2011) Arthur J. Krener (2012) A. Stephen Morse (2013) Dimitri Bertsekas (2014) Thomas F. Edgar (2015)

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