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David Blackwell

1919 - 2010

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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 statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem, and is also known for the Blackwell channel, Blackwell's contraction mapping theorem, Blackwell's approachability theorem, and the Blackwell order. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor with tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 2012, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal of Science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Blackwell is the 909th most popular mathematician (up from 947th in 2019), the 10,516th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,059th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, David Blackwell ranks 909 out of 1,004. Before him are Artur Avila, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Elon Lindenstrauss, Christine Darden, Armand Borel, and Richard Borcherds. After him are Mark Kac, Salomon Bochner, Philip Hall, Don Zagier, Branko Grünbaum, and Paul Koebe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, David Blackwell ranks 319. Before him are Clifford Truesdell, Forrest Tucker, Bill Nicholson, Delfo Cabrera, Aleksandr Volodin, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. After him are Marga Petersen, Edward Brooke, Phyllis Thaxter, Dries van der Lof, Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng, and Betty Garrett. Among people deceased in 2010, David Blackwell ranks 393. Before him are Ted Stevens, Heidi Kabel, Ronald Pettersson, Isabelle Caro, Gheorghe Fiat, and Manuel Alexandre. After him are Sally Menke, Bill Erwin, Yuri Chesnokov, Antonio Giolitti, Joseph Kruskal, and Lionel Jeffries.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Blackwell ranks 10,518 out of 20,380. Before him are Chesty Puller (1898), Harvey Fletcher (1884), Alphonso Johnson (1951), Jenna Presley (1987), Irma Thomas (1941), and Barbara Bates (1925). After him are Frank Press (1924), Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Karin Slaughter (1971), Cal Tjader (1925), and Haley Bennett (1988).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, David Blackwell ranks 80. Before him are Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Gilbert Strang (1934), George Mostow (1923), Elwyn Berlekamp (1940), Clifford Truesdell (1919), and Christine Darden (1942). After him are Martin David Kruskal (1925), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Richard Garfield (1963), Barry Mazur (1937), Carl Pomerance (1944), and Ormond Stone (1847).

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