Churchman's dissertation was ultimately completed under Henry Bradford Smith, titled "Towards a General Logic of Propositions" (1938).
Ordnance Laboratory at the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia and devised a way to test small arms ammunition and detonators based on the statistical methods of bioassay.
[citation needed] European students of C. West Churchman are Werner Ulrich and Kristo Ivanov who developed his work in related fields[5] and contributed to its diffusion in Europe.
Churchman made significant contributions in the fields of management science, operations research and systems theory.
During a career spanning six decades, Churchman investigated a vast range of topics such as accounting, research and development management, city planning, education, mental health, space exploration, and peace and conflict studies.
[1] Churchman became internationally recognized due to his then radical concept of incorporating ethical values into operating systems.
Hasan Ozbekhan, his friend, in The Predicament of Mankind proposal to the Club of Rome[7] incorporated ethical values in the 49 Continuous Critical Problems that constitute the Global Problematique.
[11] The West Churchman Memorial Prize was awarded in 2014, during the 10th Brazilian Congress of systems, conducted by CORS - USP, after a selection carried out by an editorial committee, composed of researchers from several countries.
The purpose of it was to provide recognition to an important systemic research work developed within the highest ethical and methodological standards as advocated C. West Churchman.