List of Systems Scientists - F

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• J. Doyne Farmer (1952) is an American physicist, and one of the founding fathers of chaos theory.
• Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944) is an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
• Peter C. Fishburn (1936) is an American scientist known as a pioneer in the field of decision making processes.
• Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002) was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, and John von Neumann, Heinz von Foerster was the architect of cybernetics.
• Jay Forrester (1918) is an American computer engineer, known as founder of System Dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems.
• Charles François (1922) is a Belgian specialist in the field of cybernetics and systems science, known as founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
• Christian Fuchs (1976) is an Austrian social scientist who focuses his research on information society theory, social theory, critical theory.
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was one of the first to propagate a systemic worldview and explored principles of energy efficiency and material efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design.