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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

RUDOLF E. KÁLMÁN

Title: Professor Emeritus
Affiliation:   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    Zurich, Switzerland, USA
Gender:   Male
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Award Discipline:   Engineering
Award Year:   2008
Citation:   "For his fundamental contributions to modern system theory, which provided rigorous mathematical tools for engineering, econometrics, and statistics, and in particular for his invention of the "Kalman filter," which was critical to achieving the Moon landings and creating the Global Positioning System and which has facilitated the use of computers in control and communications technology."
    Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on October 7, 2009.

 

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