# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-tukey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:02:27.088Z

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name: "John Tukey"
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description: "John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foundations of the field of exploratory data analysis. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name. He is also credited with coining the term bit and the first published use of the word software."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump