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Herman Chernoff
American statistician
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dead
- born
- 1923
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 103
- known for
- mathematician, physicist, statistician
1923 β 2026

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who herman chernoff is
Herman Chernoff was an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, MIT, and at Harvard University.
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