Arianna W. Rosenbluth
American physicist and computer scientist (1927-2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arianna Wright Rosenbluth (September 15, 1927 – December 28, 2020) was an American physicist who contributed to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. She wrote the first full implementation of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
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Born | Arianna Wright (1927-09-15)September 15, 1927 |
Died | December 28, 2020(2020-12-28) (aged 93) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
Education | Lamar High School, Houston |
Alma mater | Rice Institute Radcliffe College Harvard University |
Known for | Metropolis algorithm |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, computer science |
Institutions | Stanford University Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
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