Interviews with Operational Research Pioneers and Related Papers

This material is held atModern Records Centre, University of Warwick

  • Reference
    • GB 152 INT
  • Former Reference
    • GB 152 INT
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1993-2004
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

This collection contains: typescript transcripts of interviews with pioneers in the field of Operational Research by their colleagues, 1993-2004, in some cases with accompanying correspondence and material illustrative of subjects raised in the interview. The Centre does not hold the tapes.

Access Information

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Acquisition Information

These interviews were generated as part of an on-going 'History of Operational Research' project mounted by the Operational Research Society in 1992, and were collected over a period of time from 1993. They have been deposited with the Modern Records Centre between 1993 and 2000 as part of that archive.

Other Finding Aids

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/INT

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to quote from INT/8/1 is needed from the interviewee.

Appraisal Information

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Accruals

Further deposits are expected.

Related Material

The Centre holds the following other collections relating to the history, development and practice of operational research and to pioneers and practitioners in this field (collectively known as the Operational Research Archive): British European Airways: Operational Research Branch (MSS.335/AI/1); British Overseas Airways Corporation: Operational Research Branch (MSS.335/AI/2); British Steel Operational Research papers and Memoranda (MSS.335/BS); the Papers of Professor Stephen Cook (MSS.335/CK); the Community Operational Research Unit (MSS.335/COR); the East Midlands Operational Research Group (MSS.335/EMORG); Papers of the Fellowship for Operational Research (MSS.335/FOR); papers for British Gas Operational Research (MSS.335/GA); British Gas North West Operational Research Reports (MSS.335/GA/NW); GKN Operational Research Reports (MSS.335/GKN); Fellowship for Operational Research (MSS.335/FOR); International Federation of Operational Research Societies (MSS.335/IFORS); the Institute for Operational Research (MSS.335/IOR); the Local Government Operational Research Unit (MSS.335/LG); Miscellaneous and Fragmentary Operational Research Papers (MSS.335/MIS); Operational Analysis Branch, NATO (MSS.335/OAB); Draft Obituaries of Operational Research Practitioners (MSS.335/OBIT); the Papers of Jack Plymen (MSS.335/PLY); the Papers of Professor K. Brian Haley relating to Operational Research Quarterly (MSS.335/SO/H); the Papers of Rolphe C. Tomlinson (MSS.335/TOM); and the Papers of Dr Edward D. van Rest (MSS.335/VR).