Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician and science administrator, born in 1894, widely recognized as one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. He received three degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ending with a Ph.D. in 1921, and taught mathematics at Wisconsin from 1920 to 1932. He directed the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1932 to 1955 and during the Second World War headed the Applied Mathematics Panel of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, directing the work of mathematicians in operations research. His chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability and statistics.
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was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator
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17 July 1894
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He was appointed to the Mathematics Department at Wisconsin-Madison and progressed to become a full professor.
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was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator
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the mathematical theory of probability and statistics
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directing the work of mathematicians in operations research
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