Complexity Theory Chronograph

Complexity Pioneers 1900 2000
Macy Conferences 1942 1953
Serbelloni Conferences 1966 1969
Cannon 1871 1945
Lotka 1880 1949
Richardson 1881 1953
Bush 1890 1970??
Lewin 1890 1947
Wiener 1894 1964
Piaget 1896 1964??
McCulloch 1898 1971
Rashevsky 1899 1970
Gerard 1900 1975
Von Bertalanffy 1901 1972
Mead 1901 1980?
Bateson 1901? 1980
Lorente de No 1902 1980?
Von Neumann 1903 1957
Waddington 1905 1975
Boulding 1910 ----
Rapoport 1911 ----
Von Foerster 1911 ----
Turing 1912 1954
Bigelow 1913 2003
Savage 1917 ----
Iberall 1918 ----
Pitts 1923 1969
Thom 1923 ----
Maturana 1928 ----
Jantsch 1929 1981
Lovelock 1930?? ----
Pask 1930?? ----
Prigogine 1930?? ----
Forrester 1930?? ----
Rosen 1934 ----
Zeeman 1934? ----

Revised July 24, 2002 by Ralph Abraham