Gene F. Franklin
Gene F. Franklin | |
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Gene F. Franklin | |
| Born | July 25, 1927 |
| Died | August 9, 2012 (aged 85) |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University |
| Known for | Systems Control engineering and Automatic control theory U.S. space program (Apollo mission) |
| Awards | John R. Ragazzini Award (1985), Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering (Controls) |
| Institutions | Stanford University NASA |
| Doctoral advisor | John Ralph Ragazzini |
| Doctoral students | Lucy Pao , Gilson Monteiro de Barros Fonseca |
Gene F. Franklin (July 25, 1927 – August 9, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space program, most famously in the control systems for the Apollo missions to the Moon in 1960s–1970s.
He is also noted for his authorship of influential texts on the control system, most notably, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, which has been translated into numerous of languages and has received literary prizes as the best book in the discipline of controls.