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Walter A. Shewhart

1891 - 1967

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Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle. W. Edwards Deming said of him: As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background of physics and mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter A. Shewhart is the 394th most popular physicist (down from 347th in 2019), the 2,682nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,879th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter A. Shewhart ranks 394 out of 851. Before him are Donna Strickland, Christopher Polhem, Manfred von Ardenne, Léon Brillouin, Hiroshi Amano, and Moritz von Jacobi. After him are Stefan Hell, Jean-Antoine Nollet, John Kerr, Arpad Elo, George Uhlenbeck, and Takaaki Kajita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Walter A. Shewhart ranks 69. Before him are Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, John Langenus, Lilya Brik, Dimitrije Ljotić, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, and Oswald Boelcke. After him are Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Lajos Zilahy, Hans F. K. Günther, Kim Seong-su, Poul Nielsen, and Johannes R. Becher. Among people deceased in 1967, Walter A. Shewhart ranks 84. Before him are Forough Farrokhzad, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Paul Muni, Jane Darwell, Basil Rathbone, and Hans Ledwinka. After him are David Burliuk, H. H. Kung, Langston Hughes, Joseph Boxhall, Ernst Niekisch, and Harold Holt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter A. Shewhart ranks 2,682 out of 20,380. Before him are Yaphet Kotto (1939), David Farragut (1801), George Antheil (1900), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Frances Conroy (1953), and Wilbur Scoville (1865). After him are Alan Menken (1949), Philip José Farmer (1918), David Schwimmer (1966), Rhea Seehorn (1972), Dick York (1928), and Sinbad (1956).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Walter A. Shewhart ranks 80. Before him are John G. Trump (1907), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Edward Witten (1951). After him are Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Robert W. Wood (1868).

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