C. R. Rao

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (Kannada: ಕಲ್ಯಾಂಪುದಿ ರಾಧಾಕೃಷ್ಣ ರಾಯ) FRS (born September 10, 1920) is a world-renowned Indian born statistician, National Medal of Science Awardee, and currently Professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest statisticians of all time along with Deming and Fisher . The Times of India chose C.R. Rao as one of the top 10 Indian ... more

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (Kannada: ಕಲ್ಯಾಂಪುದಿ ರಾಧಾಕೃಷ್ಣ ರಾಯ) FRS (born September 10, 1920) is a world-renowned Indian born statistician, National Medal of Science Awardee, and currently Professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest statisticians of all time along with Deming and Fisher . The Times of India chose C.R. Rao as one of the top 10 Indian Scientists of all time; the list includes esteemed scientists such as S.N. Bose, S. Ramanujan, and G.N. Ramachandran. He was born in Hadagali, in the state of Karnataka, India to a prominent Velama Family. He received an M.S. degree in mathematics from Andhra University and an M.S. degree in statistics from Calcutta University in 1943. Rao worked at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Anthropological Museum in Cambridge before acquiring a Ph.D. degree at King's College in Cambridge University under R.A. Fisher in 1948, to which he added a... less