> From: "Wainer, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: John Tukey
>
> Dear Friends and colleagues,
>
> John Wilder Tukey died last night of an accumulation of physical
> problems.
>
John Tukey was unique in many ways. In particular, he was
the *last* "World's Greatest Statistician". At the turn of the
20th century, the title could be said to belong to Karl Pearson.
By the first third, it had passed to Sir Ronald Fisher. By mid-
century, the honor was Tukey's. No one had his command of both
theory and practice, and given the way the field has fractured and
split apart into so many specialties, it seems no one will ever
again command such depth at such breadth.
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