Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale

Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale, alwaysknown as Martin to his friends and colleagues, was a giant of the Operations Research (OR) profession, especially in the U.K., and an outstanding contributor to all aspects of mathematical programming (MP). He not only made major contributions to theory and algorithms but to the development of practical mathematical-programming computer systems. His pioneering work on developing algorithms for real-world problems, and overseeing their implementation in large-scale commercial software systems, made a major impact on the practice of OR at the time and left a lasting imprint.