Merrill Meeks Flood

Merrill Meeks Flood (1908 – 1991) was an American mathematician, notable for developing, with Melvin Dresher, the basis of the game theoretical Prisoner's dilemma model of cooperation and conflict while being at RAND in 1950." He claimed to have designed in the 1930s the blind-bidding game Goofspiel (also known as GOPS), which is the prototype of numerous such modern card games.