C. R. Rao
Statistician, Academic
1920 –
Who is C. R. Rao?
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine." The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.
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- Born
- Sep 10, 1920
Hoovina Hadagali - Also known as
- C. Radhakrishna Rao
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- India
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Andhra University
- University of Calcutta
- King's College, Cambridge
- Employment
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- India
- Karnataka
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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