The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Medical Informatics (20): Robert S. Ledley (1926-2012)

Robert Steven Ledley (1926-2012) is one of the most influential Medical informatics scientists in the history of development of Medical informatics (1-3). Robert S. Ledley and his colleague Lee B. Lusted (1922-1994) wrote a seminal 1959 paper in Science that many people cite as the publication that launched the informatics field (Reasoning Foundations of Clinical Diagnosis) (4)