Person Tukey; John Wilder (1915 - 2000) Tukey John Wilder 1915 - 2000 American Male New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA 16/06/1915 19150616 26/07/2000 20000726

Mathematician Statistics 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) Only son of teachers; married Elizabeth (died 1998); no children Foreign Member 20/06/1991 76 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 16 Jun 1915 - 26 Jul 2000 NA3421 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 27523f84-91b2-4a92-a86c-9f1c5bffe52c