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![]() Herman Chernoff speaking in New York on October 6, 2015 | |
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New York City, New York, U.S. | July 1, 1923
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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]
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]
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]
Chernoff turned 100 on July 1, 2023. [9]