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'''Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler''' (1928-2025) American industrial engineer.
== Life ==
== Life ==
1928-
'''Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler''' was born in 1928.


== Relevant Employment ==


He died on May 17, 2025 in Berkeley, California.
* DuPont
* DuPont
* Johns Hopkins
* Johns Hopkins
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== Contributions ==
== Contributions ==
Research for libraries; Industrial engineering educator; Management engineer, DuPont 1950-57; Research engineer, Johns Hopkins 1957-61; Purdue: Prof. Industrial Engineering 1961-?; Head of School of Industrial Engineering 1969-74, 1981-?; Also did consulting work; Active in library OR from about mid 1960s; Major author: Bradford's Law of scattering as well as book of storage models.
Research for libraries; Industrial engineering educator; Management engineer, DuPont 1950-57; Research engineer, Johns Hopkins 1957-61; Purdue: Prof. Industrial Engineering 1961-?; Head of School of Industrial Engineering 1969-74, 1981-?; Also did consulting work; Active in library OR from about mid 1960s; Major author: Bradford's Law of scattering as well as book of storage models.
== Publications ==
Numerous publications relating to information systems and library planning are listed in Buckland, M. K. & D. H. Kraft. "A bibliography on Operations Research in libraries." Pp. 355-392. In: Brophy, P., M. K. Buckland, & A. Hindle, eds. ''Reader in Operations Research for Libraries''. Englewood, CO: Information Handling Services, 1976. [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ws5q97x]
*"Compact book storage in libraries." With J. G. Cox. ''Operations Research'' 12, no. 3 (1964): 419-427.
*"The Bradford distribution." Journal of documentation 23, no. 3 (1967): 197-207.
*"Analytical models for library planning." With M. D. Cooper. ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 22, no. 6 (1971): 390-398.
*''An enduring quest: the story of Purdue industrial engineers''. Purdue University Press, 2009.


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
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== Offices ==
== Offices ==


== Papers ==
== Further reading ==
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Revision as of 14:31, 17 June 2025

Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler (1928-2025) American industrial engineer.


Life

Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler was born in 1928.


He died on May 17, 2025 in Berkeley, California.

  • DuPont
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Purdue

Contributions

Research for libraries; Industrial engineering educator; Management engineer, DuPont 1950-57; Research engineer, Johns Hopkins 1957-61; Purdue: Prof. Industrial Engineering 1961-?; Head of School of Industrial Engineering 1969-74, 1981-?; Also did consulting work; Active in library OR from about mid 1960s; Major author: Bradford's Law of scattering as well as book of storage models.

Publications

Numerous publications relating to information systems and library planning are listed in Buckland, M. K. & D. H. Kraft. "A bibliography on Operations Research in libraries." Pp. 355-392. In: Brophy, P., M. K. Buckland, & A. Hindle, eds. Reader in Operations Research for Libraries. Englewood, CO: Information Handling Services, 1976. [1]

  • "Compact book storage in libraries." With J. G. Cox. Operations Research 12, no. 3 (1964): 419-427.
  • "The Bradford distribution." Journal of documentation 23, no. 3 (1967): 197-207.
  • "Analytical models for library planning." With M. D. Cooper. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 22, no. 6 (1971): 390-398.
  • An enduring quest: the story of Purdue industrial engineers. Purdue University Press, 2009.

Awards

Offices

Further reading