About Elmer G. Gilbert
Lived 1930 – 2019 (aged 89). Elmer G. Gilbert was an American military flight engineer and engineer.
Elmer Grant Gilbert (March 29, 1930 – June 16, 2019) was an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Instrumentation Engineering from Michigan in 1957.
Gilbert was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award (the citation reads: "for pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms") and the 1996 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council.
Gilbert died on June 16, 2019, at the age of 89.
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Who was Elmer G. Gilbert?
American aerospace engineer (1930–2019)
When was Elmer G. Gilbert born?
Elmer G. Gilbert was born on 29 March 1930 in Joliet.
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Elmer G. Gilbert died on 16 June 2019 in Ann Arbor.
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Elmer G. Gilbert was a military flight engineer and engineer.
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Elmer G. Gilbert was American.
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