Died 2000-07-26.
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John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foundations of the field of exploratory data analysis. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name. He is also credited with coining th…
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science · American mathematician (1915–2000) · politician · statistician · university teacher · computer scientist · chemist · mathematician · also John Tukey, John W. Tukey, John W Tukey, Tukey
Born 16 June 1915 · Died 26 July 2000 · Q382207
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2000· 2 entries
“Original: «The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.”
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1991).
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1984· 1 entry
Won James Madison Medal (1984).
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1982· 2 entries
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1982).
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"For his contributions to the spectral analysis of random processes and the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm"
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1976· 1 entry
Won Shewhart Medal (1976).
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1973· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1973).
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1970· 1 entry
Contributed significantly to what is today known as the jackknife—also termed Quenouille–Tukey jackknife
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Wilks Memorial Award (1965).
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1962· 1 entry
Tukey was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1949).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1946).
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1939· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1937–1939).
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1937· 2 entries
In chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University, where in 1939 he received a PhD in mathematics after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "On denumerability in topology"
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Studied at Brown University (1937).
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1915· 2 entries
Born 1915-06-16.
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To a Latin teacher father and a private tutor
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