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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 611,762 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Tukey is the 389th most popular chemist (down from 372nd in 2019), the 4,056th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,673rd in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 27

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  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Tukey ranks 389 out of 509. Before him are Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, David Warren, Benjamin List, and Leo Sternbach. After him are Peter Atkins, William Gregor, Luke Howard, Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, and Edward Calvin Kendall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, John Tukey ranks 120. Before him are Takeshi Kamo, Paul Castellano, Norman Wisdom, Willie Dixon, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, and Hoàng Văn Thái. After him are Tim, John C. Lilly, Helmut Wick, Wee Kim Wee, Eddie Bracken, and Alberto Burri. Among people deceased in 2000, John Tukey ranks 129. Before him are Jeanne Hersch, Joey Dunlop, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Ferenc Farkas, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Oleg Yefremov. After him are John Ljunggren, George Segal, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Leonidas Pyrgos, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Tukey ranks 4,056 out of 18,182. Before him are James Pickens Jr. (1954), Lori Lightfoot (1962), Nile Rodgers (1952), William Forsythe (1949), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Katherine Helmond (1929). After him are Billy Blanks (1955), Elliott Carter (1908), Hope Lange (1933), Toni Braxton (1967), Walter Cunningham (1932), and Howard Stern (1954).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Tukey ranks 74. Before him are Roy J. Plunkett (1910), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), George Washington Carver (1864), Jennifer Doudna (1964), and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847). After him are Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Eric Betzig (1960), Donella Meadows (1941), Isabella Karle (1921), and Maclyn McCarty (1911).

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