| RefNo | EC/1991/45 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Tukey, John Wilder: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1984 |
| Description | Certificate of Candidate for Election to Foreign Membership. Citation typed |
| Citation | J.W. Tukey has had a major impact on the development of quantitative methods for the analysis of data and on the application of those methods in many fields of science and technology. Much of his early work was in time series analysis where his book (with R. Blackman) was widely influential. He introduced the Fast Fourier Transform (Tukey-Cooley algorithm) for efficient computation of spectra, studied smoothing techniques, as well as inventing such ideas as prewhitening, tapering and the cepstrum. The last, introduced in a geophysical context, has been particularly fruitful in acoustics. His later work on time series has emphasized nonlinear methods, especially those insensitive to gross errors in data. He has contributed to many other areas of statistical theory and method, including components of regression, one degree of freedom for nonadditivity and the systematic study of 'robustness', where his pioneer has led to a major school of research. Most of his more recent work has been devoted to 'exploratory data analysis', including the development of imaginative graphical methods for examining and presenting multidimensional data. A man of great energy, Tukey's influence has been felt not only through his extensive publications, but by his involvement in many investigations, in particular via his posts at Princeton University and as Associate Executive Director, Bell Telephone Laboratories. He has been a member of such bodies as the President's Advisory Committee, the US delegation to the UN Conference on Human Environment and has been Chairman of several panel committees of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a frequent visitor to the U.K. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3421 | Tukey; John Wilder (1915 - 2000) | 1915 - 2000 |