Jacob Wolfowitz
American statistician (1910-1981) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 71
Jacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.
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1981Died16 July 19811979Claude E. Shannon AwardAward1965Guggenheim FellowshipAward1957Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1943Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1910Born19 March 1910
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Academics
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Lived 1910 to 1981 · aged 71
