Awards & Winners

Rudolf E. Kálmán

Date of Birth 19-May-1930
Place of Birth Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
Nationality Hungary, United States of America
Also know as Rudolf E. Kalman
Profession Engineer, Mathematician
Rudolf Emil Kálmán is a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor, who was educated in the United States, and has done most of his work there. He is currently a retired professor from three different institutes of technology and universities. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and Guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán with the National Medal of Science on October 7, 2009.

Awards by Rudolf E. Kálmán

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rudolf E. Kálmán.

2008


National Medal of Science for Engineering
(For his fundamental contributions to modern system theory, which provided rigorous mathematical tools for engineering, econometrics, and statistics, and in particular for his invention of the Kalman filter, which was critical to achieving the Moon landings and creating the Global Positioning System and which has facilitated the use of computers in control and communications technology.)

1974


IEEE Medal of Honor
(for pioneering modern methods in system theory, including concepts of controllability, observability, filtering, and algebraic structures)