Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler
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.