Jacob Wolfowitz
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Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, he emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1920. In the mid-1930, Wolfowitz began his career as high-school mathematics teacher and continued teaching until 1942 when he received his Ph.D. degree in...
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