David Blackwell
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29 properties- Instance of
- human
- Sex or gender
- male
- Date of birth
- April 24, 1919
- Date of death
- July 8, 2010
- Place of birth
- Centralia
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Country of citizenship
- United States[6]
- Ethnic group
- Black people[7]
- Occupation
- mathematician, statistician, university teacher
- Employer
- University of California, Berkeley, Howard University, Institute for Advanced Study, Southern University, Clark College[13][14][15][16][17]
- Field of work
- probability theory, game theory, Bayesian statistics[8][9][10]
- Position held
- chairperson, chairperson[11][12]
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign[18]
- Award received
- John von Neumann Theory Prize, National Medal of Science, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, honorary doctor of Syracuse University, honorary doctor of the University of Michigan, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[20][21][22][23][24][25]
- Notable work
- Rao–Blackwell theorem, Blackwell channel, A renewal theorem
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph Leo Doob[19]
- Doctoral student
- Morton D. Davis, Howard G. Tucker, Roger J-B Wets, Carlos Alberto Barbosa Dantas, Ashok Prasad Maitra, B. R. Bhat, Aram John Thomasian, Richard S. Bucy, John Joseph Birch, David W. Matula, Richard Lockhart, Richard Ellsworth Robinson, Lambert Koopmans, Rolando Chuaqui, George G. Roussas, Benton Niles Jamison, Barry Wilson Brown, Howard Dachslager, Jeremy Samuel Berman, Wesley C. Thompson, Gerald John Smith, Jr., Mohamed Salahuddin Ahmed, Edgar J. Gilbert, Melvin Louis Katz, Jr., Martin Fox, Atholl Livingston Wilson, Dorian Feldman, Jack I. Karush, Jaap Fabius, Roger Purves, Joseph A. Yahav, Phillip Good Freygood, Ralph Eugene Strauch, Benjamin Henry Eichhorn, Nadia Makary Girgis, John E. Rolph, Calvin Wayne Sweat, Tien-Fang Hou, Alberto Ruiz-Moncayo, Manish Chandra Bhattacharjee, Sailes Kumar Sengupta, Isaac Meilijson, Abdelaziz Laghrari, Marie-Louise Agop Yengoyan, James O'Donnell Flynn, Michael Lawrence Orkin, Siew-Tin Koay, Kang Ling James, Mustafa Benyaklef, John C. Morgan, II, Hezekiah Oduoye Adeyemi, Lawrence Edward Myers, Richard Yasuo Kakigi, Abderrahmane Alj, Li-Pei Chen, Arne David Wagner, Richard Clark Persons, Shaiy Pilpel, Jonathan Chukwuemeka Nkwuo, Flavio Rocha Gorini, Basudev Uprety, Kooros Mahjoob-Behrooz, Tadeusz Bednarski, Richard Eugene Isaac, Robert Nau
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Science
- Academic thesis
- Some Properties of Markoff Chains
- Birth name
- David Harold Blackwell
- Described by source
- Living Black American Authors: a Biographical Directory
- Erdős number
- +2
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- Family name
- Blackwell
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Manner of death
- natural causes
- ISNI
- 0000000114730627
- VIAF cluster ID
- 56684356
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n79138722
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- 128821574
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- A5082188142
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- David Blackwell.jpg ↗
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- 771002
- All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
- 123849
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- 98034769
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- 12347806r
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- african-american-history/blackwell-david-harold-1919-2010
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- 131936355
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- ncf11492320
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- Cyprus University of Technology ID
- 87021
- DBLP author ID
- 178/5733
- ELNET ID
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- biography/David-Harold-Blackwell
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- FAST ID
- 1757072
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- MR Author ID
- 37555
- MacTutor biography ID
- Blackwell
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
- 4209
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- DA00183068
- NDL Authority ID
- 00433428
- NL CR AUT ID
- xx0026917
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- NSK ID
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- NUKAT ID
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- National Academy of Sciences member ID
- 57657
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
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- National Library of Korea ID
- KAC2024B2308
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- Oberwolfach mathematician ID
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- Prabook ID
- 1693030
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A003011259
- SBN author ID
- IEIV030366
- SHARE Catalogue author ID
- 104536
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- w6p93294
- SVKKL authority ID
- p0011815-Blackwell-David-19192010
- Scopus author ID
- 7005733924
- WikiTree person ID
- Blackwell-5546
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- Yale LUX ID
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- ZbMATH author ID
- blackwell.david
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Summary
David Blackwell's place of birth was Centralia[1]. He passed away in Berkeley[2]. He worked as a mathematician[3], statistician[4], and university teacher[5].
Body
Career and Affiliations
Fields of work include probability theory[8], a branch of mathematics[26]; game theory[9], a branch of mathematics[27]; and Bayesian statistics[10], a theory[28]. Employers include University of California, Berkeley[13], a public research university[29], in United States[30], founded in 1868[31], headquartered in Berkeley[32]; Howard University[14], a private university[33], in United States[34], founded in 1867[35], headquartered in Washington, D.C.[36]; Institute for Advanced Study[15], a research institute[37], in United States[38], founded in 1930[39], headquartered in Princeton[40]; Southern University[16], a public university[41], in United States[42], founded in 1880[43]; and Clark College[17], a college[44], in United States[45], founded in 1869[46]. Positions held include chairperson[11], a type of position[47]. Doctoral students include Morton D. Davis[48], Howard G. Tucker[49], Roger J-B Wets[50], Carlos Alberto Barbosa Dantas[51], Ashok Prasad Maitra[52], and B. R. Bhat[53].
Recognition
Awards received include John von Neumann Theory Prize[20], a science award[54], in United States[55], founded in 1975[56]; National Medal of Science[21], a science award[57], in United States[58], founded in 1963[59]; Fellow of the American Statistical Association[22], a statistics award[60]; honorary doctor of Syracuse University[23], an award[61], in United States[62]; honorary doctor of the University of Michigan[24], an award[63], in United States[64]; and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[25].
Works and Contributions
Things named for David Blackwell include Blackwell[65], a microarchitecture[66]; Rao–Blackwell theorem[67], a theorem[68]; Blackwell–Tapia prize[69], a mathematics award[70]; and Blackwell–Rosenbluth Award[71], an award[72], founded in 2021[73].
Why It Matters
Entities named for him include Blackwell[65], a microarchitecture[66]; Rao–Blackwell theorem[67], a theorem[68]; Blackwell–Tapia prize[69], a mathematics award[70]; and Blackwell–Rosenbluth Award[71], an award[72], founded in 2021[73].
His notable doctoral advisees include David W. Matula[74], a computer scientist[75], b. 1937[76], specialised in mathematics[77].
FAQs
Where was David Blackwell born?
David Blackwell's place of birth was Centralia[1].
Where did David Blackwell die?
David Blackwell passed away in Berkeley[2].
What did David Blackwell do for work?
David Blackwell worked as mathematician[3], statistician[4], and university teacher[5].
Where did David Blackwell go to school?
David Blackwell was educated at University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign[18].
What awards did David Blackwell receive?
Honors received include John von Neumann Theory Prize[20], National Medal of Science[21], Fellow of the American Statistical Association[22], and honorary doctor of Syracuse University[23].