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Thomson McLintock Whitin (January 12, 1923 – December 9, 2013) was an American management scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at Wesleyan University, known for his work on inventory control〔Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1985) ''Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow: Production and capital''. p. 27〕 and inventory management.〔Michael C. Lovell and Attila Chikàn eds. (1988) ''The Economics of Inventory Management: Essays Honoring Thomson M. Whitin''. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988〕 ==Biography== Born and raised in Northbridge, Massachusetts, Whitin graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1940 and received his AB from Princeton University in 1943. He then joined the U.S. Navy, where he became gunnery officer on the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31). After the War he returned to Princeton, where he received his AM and PhD late 1940s.〔Robert W. Grubbström (2012) "(Current Research Interests in Production Economics )" Presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Operations Management and Technology. Cartagena, Spain, May 14, 2012. p. 64〕 After graduation Whitin started his academic career as Associate Professor at Princeton University in its Economics Department. In 1953 he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was appointed Professor of Economics in the School of Industrial Management. From 1956 to 1958 he was Chief Economist at the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington DC, and returned to MIT for another two years.〔 In 1960 he was appointed Professor of Business Administration at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1963 he moved back to Connecticut to the Wesleyan University, where he was appointed Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, where he stayed until his retirement June 30, 1993. In 1958 Whitin and Harvey M. Wagner wrote the article "Dynamic version of the economic lot size model.", what would become the seminal work on the dynamic lot-size model.〔Wagelmans, Albert, Stan Van Hoesel, and Antoon Kolen. "(Economic lot sizing: an O (n log n) algorithm that runs in linear time in the Wagner-Whitin case )." Operations Research 40.1-Supplement-1 (1992): S145-S156.〕 Whitin died aged 90 at Tiverton, Rhode Island in December, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomson M. Whitin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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