David Blackwell
(1919-2010)
American mathematician
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David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first black tenured faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
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24 April 1919 Centralia, Illinois, United States
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8 July 2010 (aged 91) Berkeley, California, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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