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Arthur Earl Bryson, Jr. is the Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory”. He was awarded membership into the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1951. His thesis An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs was advised by Hans Liepmann.
Bryson is the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho.
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