Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/List of historical highlights for systems

Welcome at this page of the WikiProject Systems. This page is open for everybody to edit. Feel free to do so. For other questions ask Mdd.  This article is a start to give a list of major events concerning the theory and practice of systems in science and society.

1901

 * September 19 1901, Vienna, Austria: Ludwig von Bertalanffy is born.

1954

 * Society for General Systems Research (SGST)

1956

 * Society for General Systems Research (SGSR)

1960

 * Dr. A. Wayne Wymore founded the first academic department of Systems Engineering in the world at the University of Arizona in 1960.

1969

 * Man on the moon

1972

 * June 12 1972 New York, USA: Ludwig von Bertalanffy dies.

1987

 * SGSR becomes ISSS