Jacob Wolfowitz
Mathematician, Academic
1910 – 1981
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Who was Jacob Wolfowitz?
Jacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.
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- Born
- Mar 19, 1910
Warsaw - Spouses
- Lillian Dundes
(1934 - )
- Lillian Dundes
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, New York University
Mathematics
( - 1942)
- PhD, New York University
- Employment
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg
- Cornell University
(1951 - 1970)
- Lived in
- Tampa
(1978 - 1981/07/16)
- Tampa
- Died
- Jul 16, 1981
Tampa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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