Churchill Eisenhart
Churchill Eisenhart (1913–1994) was a United States mathematician. He was Chief of the Statistical Engineering Laboratory (SEL), Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS).
Biography
Eisenhart was the son of Luther Eisenhart, a prominent mathematician in his own right.
Churchill Eisenhart was brought to the NBS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1946 by Edward Condon, Director of the NBS, to establish a statistical consulting group to "substitute sound mathematical analysis for costly experimentation." He was allowed to recruit his own staff and, over the years, he brought many notable and accomplished statisticians to SEL. He served as its Chief from 1947 until his appointment as Senior Research Fellow in 1963. He retired in 1983 after which he formed the Standards Alumni Association, which he headed until his death in 1994.
Over his career, Eisenhart was awarded the
References
- NIST. "Realistic Evaluation of the Precision and Accuracy of Instrument Calibration Systems". Archived from the original on 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2006-02-15.
- Ingram Olkin (1992) A Conversation with Churchill Eisenhart. Statistical Science, 7, 512–530.
- Joseph M. Cameron; Joan R. Rosenblatt (1995) Churchill Eisenhart, 1913–1994, The American Statistician, 49, 243–244.
- Samuel S. Wilks Award Citation for 1977
- An interview with Joseph Daly and Churchill Eisenhart about their experiences at Princeton 10 July 1984
- An interview with Churchill Eisenhart about his experience at Princeton 10 July 1984
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