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Joseph Kruskal

Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr.

American statistician (1928-2010).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Mathematician
Statistician
Computer Scientist
University Teacher

Country of Citizenship

United States

Place of Birth

New York City

Place of Death

Princeton
Maplewood
Reason for Preferred Rank
:
Most Precise Value

Date of Birth

1/29/1928

Date of Death

9/19/2010

Instance Of

Human

Educated At

Princeton University
(1950 - 1954)
Academic Degree
:
Doctor
Start Time
: 1950
End Time
: 1954
University of Chicago
(1946 - 1949)
Start Time
: 1946
End Time
: 1949

Given Name

Joseph

Doctoral Advisor

Paul Erdős

Family Name

Kruskal

Award Received

Fellow of the American Statistical Association
(1971)
Point in Time
: 1971

Field of Work

Applied Mathematics
Statistics
Psychometrics
Combinatorics
Algorithm
Mathematics

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Sibling

William Kruskal
Martin David Kruskal

Mother

Lillian Oppenheimer

Notable Work

Place of Burial

Academic Thesis

Employer

Office of Naval Research
(1950 - 1956)
Start Time
: 1950
End Time
: 1956
University of Wisconsin–Madison
(1956 - 1959)
Start Time
: 1956
End Time
: 1959
Bell Labs
(1959 - 1993)
Start Time
: 1959
End Time
: 1993

Relative

Clyde Kruskal
Kinship to Subject
:
Nephew

Position Held

Chairperson
(1974 - 1975)
Replaces
:
Roger Shepard
Start Time
: 1974
End Time
: 1975

Member Of

Congress of Racial Equality

Archives At

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Cause of Death

Pancreatic Cancer
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Well-Quasi-Ordering, The Tree Theorem, and Vazsonyi's Conjecture
B'nai Abraham Memorial Park
Coordinate Location
: 40.6868°N 74.3059°W
On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem
Roger Lyndon
Replaced By
:
J. Douglas Carroll
Kruskal's Tree Theorem
Kruskal's Algorithm
The Theory of Well-Partially-Ordered Sets
URL
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Publication Date
: 1954
Kruskal–Katona Theorem
Organization Directed by the Office or Position
:
Psychometric Society