Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson

male, deceased (1936)
Biostatisticians, Old Gower, FRS, sesquicentenary, mathematicalstatistics, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. A sesquicentenary conference was held in...

Samuel S. Wilks

male, deceased (1964)
Samuel Stanley Wilks, Journal of Educational Psychology, World War II, mathematician, sat, Annals of Mathematical Statistics…mathematicalstatistics
Samuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 - March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of...

Harald Cramér

male, deceased (1985)
mathematician, Statistician, prime number, swedish, twin prime, prime…mathematicalstatistics
Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician and statistician, specialising in mathematical statistics. He also made some outstanding statistical c...
Peter Whittle

Peter Whittle

male, 82 years old
professor, Royal Society, University of New Zealand, University of Uppsala, Lectureship, mathematicalstatistics
Peter Whittle (born 27 February 1927, in Wellington, New Zealand) is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets,...

Richard D. Gill

male, 58 years old
dutch, Erdős number 3, probability theory, quantum information, mathematicalstatistics, image analysis…Mathematical Centre
Richard David Gill was born on the 11th September, 1951, in the United Kingdom. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1970-1973),...
Jacob Wolfowitz

Jacob Wolfowitz

male, deceased (1981)
Warsaw, Poland, Jewish, World Bank Group, Claude E. Shannon Award, Shannon Award, myocardial infarction…mathematicalstatistics, non-parametric statistics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 - July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He...
Nils Lid Hjort

Nils Lid Hjort

male, 56 years old
nonparametric regression, International Skating Union, Grex Vocalis, Fast Breaking Paper in the field of mathematics, Bayesian probability, Speedskating World…mathematicalstatistics
Nils Lid Hjort (born 1953) is a Norwegian statistician, and has been a professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Oslo since 1991....

Harry C. Carver

male, deceased (1977)
University of Michigan, World War II, mathematician, Iowa State University, probability, great depression…Annals of Mathematical Statistics, mathematicalstatistics
Harry Clyde Carver (December 4, 1890 - January 30, 1977) was an American mathematician and academic, primarily associated with the University of...
Anders Martin-Löf

Anders Martin-Löf

male, 69 years old
professor, Ph.D., Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, Folksam, probability theory…mathematicalstatistics
Anders Martin-Löf, born 1940, is a Swedish physicist and mathematician. He is a professor in insurance mathematics and mathematical statistics s...
Oskar Anderson

Oskar Anderson

male, deceased (1960)
Russian, mathematician, Statistician, German, Alumni of St. Petersburg Polytechnical University, Belarus born…mathematicalstatistics
Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson was a German-Russian mathematician. He was most famously known for his work on mathematical statistics.