Peter C. Fishburn
Peter Clingerman Fishburn is known as a pioneer in the field of decision-making processes.Biography
Intellectual
He received his B.S. in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1958, his M.S. in operations research in 1961, and a Ph.D in operations research in 1962, the latter two from the Case Institute of Technology.
In collaboration with Steven Brams, he devised approval voting in 1977. In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Prize. He also won the in 1991 and in 1987.
He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.Personal
He has retired after many years of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the state of New Jersey, United States. He is married to the theologian Janet Forsythe Fishburn.
