David Blackwell

David Harold Blackwell (born April 24, 1919) born in Centralia, Illinois is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley. In 1935, aged 16, Blackwell entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his interes... more

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