Herman Chernoff
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| Born | July 1, 1923 New York City, U.S. |
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| Thesis | Studentization in testing of hypotheses (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald |
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Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Herman Chernoff's parents were Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He studied at Townsend Harris High School[2] and earned a B.S. in mathematics from the City College of New York in 1943.[3] He attended graduate school at Brown University, earning an M.Sc. in applied mathematics in 1945, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1948 under the supervision of Abraham Wald.[3][4]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]Chernoff became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974,[5] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.[6] In 1987, he was selected for the Wilks Memorial Award by the American Statistical Association,[7] and in 2012, he was made an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[8]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Herman Chernoff's met his future wife, Judith, when they were both graduate students at Brown University in 1945, and married her in 1947.[9] She died at the age of 98 on June 9, 2023.[10] At the time of her death they were believed to be the oldest couple living in Massachusetts.[11]
Chernoff turned 100 on July 1, 2023.[12]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Chernoff bound (also known as Chernoff's inequality)
- Chernoff face
- Chernoff's distribution
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Chernoff's faculty profile at Harvard.
- Chernoff's faculty profile Archived 2022-10-07 at the Wayback Machine at MIT.
- Chernoff's biography on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Chernoff's author profile on MathSciNet.
- Chernoff's profile on Mathematics Genealogy.
- Herman Chernoff publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- 1923 births
- 20th-century American Jews
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- Living people
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
- Brown University alumni
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Harvard University faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Townsend Harris High School alumni
- American men centenarians
- Jewish American scientists
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