Awards & Winners

John Tukey

Date of Birth 16-June-1915
Place of Birth New Bedford
(Bristol County, Massachusetts)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John Wilder Tukey
Profession Statistician
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American mathematician best known for development of the 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.

Awards by John Tukey

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Tukey.

1982


IEEE Medal of Honor
(for his contributions to the spectral analysis of random processes and the fast Fourier transform algorithm)

1973


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his studies in mathematical and theoretical statistics, particularly his pioneering work on broad analysis and synthesis problems of complex systems, and for his outstanding contributions to the applications of statistics to the physical, social, and engineering sciences.)