John Tukey
Statistician, Academic
1915 – 2000
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Who was John Tukey?
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name.
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- Born
- Jun 16, 1915
New Bedford - Also known as
- John Wilder Tukey
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Science, Brown University
Chemistry
(1936 - 1937) - PhD, Princeton University
Mathematics
(1937 - 1939)
- Master of Science, Brown University
- Employment
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Princeton
( - 2000/07/26)
- Princeton
- Died
- Jul 26, 2000
New Brunswick
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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