The eminent researchers (born after 1920) include the winners of at least one award of the
IEEE Control Systems Award, the
Giorgio Quazza Medal, the
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, the
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the
Rufus Oldenburger Medal, or higher awards such as the
IEEE Medal of Honor and the
National Medal of Science. The earlier pioneers such as
Nicolas Minorsky (1885–1970),
Harry Nyquist (1889–1976),
Harold Locke Hazen (1901–1980),
Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987),
Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982),
Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996),
John F. Coales (1907–1999),
Rufus Oldenburger (1908–1969),
John R. Ragazzini (1912–1988),
Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997),
John Zaborszky (1914–2008) and
Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) are not included. ==Eminent researchers of USSR (including
Russian SFSR,
Ukrainian SSR,
Byelorussian SSR, etc. from 1922 to 1991)==