His father had been a volunteer in the Austrian Army in World War I and was wounded twice on the Serbian front.

Tragically, Yugoslavia was occupied by Germany a year later and George's father was murdered in a concentration camp in Nis, Serbia.

For George's performance in this action as a member of the reconnaissance unit, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme.

After the discharge from the army in May 1946, George studied physics at Columbia University and received the BA and MS degrees in 1949 and 1950, respectively.

From 1950 to 1957 he was employed at the US Naval Ordnance Station (USNOTS), China Lake, California, first as a physicist and then head of the aeroballistics analysis section.

[4] George contributed greatly to the theory of optimal control, dynamic games, and operations research, as well as applications to exterior ballistics of rockets, aerospace systems, economics, ecology, epidemiology, counterterrorism, and others, reported in 15 books (including An Introduction to Optimal Control, The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control, Qualitative and Quantitative Differential Games, and Cooperative and Non-cooperative Many Player Games) and over 300 technical journal articles.