Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers VC (13 October 1894 - 16 March 1982) 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.

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  • Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers VC (13 October 1894 - 16 March 1982) 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. He also had a distinguished military career, being awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1 while serving in the The Sherwood Foresters (The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), and in WW2 he was Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, in charge of economic intelligence and member of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He was knighted in 1946. The Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award has been presented by the International Society for the Systems Sciences every year since 1987 in his memory.
  • Charles Geoffrey Vickers was een Engelse militair, onderscheiden met de Victoria Cross in 1946 geridderd en een systeemdenker. Op latere leeftijd werd Vickers een vooraanstaand schrijver en spreker over sociale systeemanalyse en de complexe patronen van sociale organisaties, die grote invloed heeft gehad op vele systeemwetenschappers.
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  • Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers VC (13 October 1894 - 16 March 1982) 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.
  • Charles Geoffrey Vickers was een Engelse militair, onderscheiden met de Victoria Cross in 1946 geridderd en een systeemdenker. Op latere leeftijd werd Vickers een vooraanstaand schrijver en spreker over sociale systeemanalyse en de complexe patronen van sociale organisaties, die grote invloed heeft gehad op vele systeemwetenschappers.
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  • Charles Geoffrey Vickers
  • Geoffrey Vickers
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