Stephen Stigler

1941 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of California, Berkeley

occupation: statistician, economist, university teacher

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler. Stigler is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer – whose first formulation he credits to sociologist Robert K. Merton. Source: Wikipedia (en)