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John H. Milsum
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Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1957 in control engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Milsum is known for his book "Biological Control Systems Analysis" from 1966, which is a classic in the field and has been translated into many languages. He started working at the National Research Council in Ottawa from 1950 to 1961. In 1961 he came to McGill as the first Abitibi professor of control engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
In 1972 Milsum moved to the University of British Columbia (University of British Columbia) to become the Imperial Oil professor of General Systems and a professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology.
He was instrumental in the creation of University of British Columbia"s Institute of Health Promotion Research in 1990. He was president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 1967-1968.
Milsum died peacefully at home in 2008 November, at age 83.
Membership
And he was a member of the National Research Council in Ottawa. In 1986, he was bestowed the honour of Emeritus Member of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society.
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Canadian