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| Born | (1923-07-01)July 1, 1923 (age 102) New York City, U.S. |
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| Thesis | Studentization in testing of hypotheses (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald |
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Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an Americanapplied mathematician,statistician andphysicist. He was formerly a professor atUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,Stanford, andMIT, currently emeritus atHarvard University.[1][2]
Herman Chernoff's parents were Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish immigrants from theRussian Empire. He studied atTownsend Harris High School[2] and earned aB.S. inmathematics from theCity College of New York in 1943.[3] He attended graduate school atBrown University, earning anM.Sc. inapplied mathematics in 1945, and aPh.D. in applied mathematics in 1948 under the supervision ofAbraham Wald.[3][4]
Chernoff became a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974,[5] and was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences in 1980.[6] In 1987, he was selected for theWilks Memorial Award by the American Statistical Association,[7] and in 2012, he was made an inaugural fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[8]
Herman Chernoff's met his future wife, Judith, when they were both graduate students at Brown University in 1945, and married her in 1947.[9] She died at the age of 98 on June 9, 2023.[10] At the time of her death they were believed to be the oldest couple living in Massachusetts.[11]
Chernoffturned 100 on July 1, 2023.[12]
