Awards & Winners

Geoffrey Vickers

Date of Birth 13-October-1894
Place of Birth Nottingham
(England, United Kingdom, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier, Lawyer, Author
Sir Geoffrey Vickers VC was an English lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist. He had varied interests with roles at different times with the London Passenger Transport Board, Law Society, Medical Research Council and Mental Health Research Fund. In the later years he wrote and lectured on social systems analysis and the complex patterns of social organisation. The Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award has been presented by the International Society for the Systems Sciences since 1987 in his memory. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I while serving in The Sherwood Foresters, and was knighted following World War II during which he served as Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, in charge of economic intelligence and as a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

Awards by Geoffrey Vickers

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1915


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th October, 1915 as Temporary Captain of the Sherwood Foresters during the First World War.)