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John Tukey

1915 - 2000

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John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Tukey has received more than 664,883 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Tukey is the 417th most popular chemist (down from 389th in 2019), the 4,302nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,045th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Tukey ranks 417 out of 602. Before him are Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Hans Tropsch, and Maud Menten. After him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Kathleen Lonsdale, Michael Grätzel, and Peter Atkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, John Tukey ranks 128. Before him are Nikos Beloyannis, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Eddie Bracken, Albert O. Hirschman, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and M. F. Husain. After him are Hans Christian Blech, Wilhelm Gliese, Zulfiya, Taheyya Kariokka, Norman Wisdom, and Kurt Aland. Among people deceased in 2000, John Tukey ranks 146. Before him are W. D. Hamilton, Abraham Pais, Basil Bernstein, Jean-Claude Izzo, Nicholas Clay, and Julie London. After him are Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Frédéric Dard, George Segal, John Ljunggren, and Mohammad Ali Fardin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Tukey ranks 4,302 out of 20,380. Before him are Edmund Gettier (1927), Hugh McDonald (1950), Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943), Don Nelson (1940), Michael Johnson (1967), and Billy Hayes (1947). After him are Lee Wallard (1910), Ray Dalio (1949), Eve Meyer (1928), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Cyrus West Field (1819), and Brock Lesnar (1977).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Tukey ranks 77. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Allen J. Bard (1933), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), George Washington Carver (1864), and Jennifer Doudna (1964). After him are Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Eric Betzig (1960), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), James B. Conant (1893), and Donella Meadows (1941).

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