Career
He graduated from George Washington University in 1958 and obtained a Master's degree from the University of Maryland in 1959, his thesis being on the problem of embedding graphs into surfaces (1959).
From 1959 to 1969 he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (then the National Bureau of Standards), being a founding member of Alan Goldman’s newly created Operations Research Section in 1961.
From 1969 on, with the exception of 1991-1993, he held a faculty position at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Mathematics. He supervised the doctoral work of a dozen students in this time. From 1991 to 1993, he was involved in a dispute ("the Edmonds affair") with the University of Waterloo. The university claimed that a letter he submitted to them was a letter of resignation, but he denied that this was his intent. The conflict was resolved in 1993, and he returned to the university.
Edmonds retired in 1999. The fifth Aussois Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization in 2001 was dedicated to him.
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