The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given for "distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control", and it is the "highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists". The original name was Control Heritage Award, and it was initially only given for the engineering side of control. Recipients The following individuals have received the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award: 1979: Hendrik Wade Bode 1980: Nathaniel B. Nichols 1981: Charles Stark Draper 1982: Irving Lefkowitz 1983: John V. Breakwell 1984: Richard E. Bellman 1985: Harold Chestnut 1986: John Zaborszky 1987: John C. Lozier 1988: Walter R. Evans 1989: Roger W. Brockett 1990: Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. 1991: John G. Truxal 1992: Rutherford Aris 1993: Eliahu I. Jury 1994: Jose B. Cruz, Jr. 1995: Michael Athans 1996: Elmer G. Gilbert 1997: Rudolf E. Kálmán 1998: Lotfi Asker Zadeh 1999: Yu-Chi Ho 2000: W. Harmon Ray 2001: A.V. Balakrishnan 2002: Petar V. Kokotovic 2003: Kumpati S. Narendra 2004: Harold J. Kushner 2005: Gene F. Franklin 2006: Tamer Başar 2007: Sanjoy K. Mitter 2008: Pravin Varaiya 2009: George Leitmann 2010: Dragoslav D. Šiljak 2011: Manfred Morari 2012: Arthur J. Krener 2013: A. Stephen Morse 2014: Dimitri Bertsekas 2015: Thomas F. Edgar 2016: Jason L. Speyer 2017: John Baras 2018: Masayoshi Tomizuka 2019: Irena Lasiecka 2020: Galip Ulsoy 2021: Miroslav Krstić See also List of people in systems and control List of engineering awards References Systems sciences awards