Peter Fishburn

Peter Fishburn (2 September 1936 &mdash; June 10, 2021 ) was a voting theorist who worked many years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In collaboration with Steven Brams, he devised approval voting in 1977. In 1996, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He also won the Decision Analysis Publication Award in 1991 and the Frank P. Ramsey Medal in 1987.