John Wishart
Academic
1898 – 1956
Who was John Wishart?
John Wishart FRSE was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.
He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a leader in statistics in the University of Cambridge where he became the first Director of the Statistical Laboratory in 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931, and edited Biometrika from 1937. The Wishart distribution is named after him.
Wishart died at age 57 in a bathing accident in Acapulco while representing the Food and Agriculture Organization on a mission to set up a research centre.
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- Born
- Nov 28, 1898
Perth - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University College London
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Cambridge
- Died
- Jul 14, 1956
Acapulco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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