| Authorised form of name | Tukey; John Wilder (1915 - 2000) |
| Dates | 1915 - 2000 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of birth | 16/06/1915 |
| Date of death | 26/07/2000 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Statistics |
| Activity | Education:
At home; Brown University, Province, Rhode Island (graduated 1937), PhD (1939)
Career:
Strategic work on statistics (during World War 2); post in Statistics, Mathematics Department, Princeton (1945); Staff, Bell Laboratories (1945); Professor, Princeton (1950?); Founding Chairman, Statistics Department, Princeton (1965)
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 20/06/1991 |
| Age at election | 76 |
| Relationships | Only son of teachers; married Elizabeth (died 1998); no children |
| Sources | Sources:
Guardian obit 16/08/00
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 537-555, plate, by Peter McCullagh |
| Royal Society code | NA3421 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1991/45 | Tukey, John Wilder: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1984 |