David Blackwell Scientist

David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Born in Centralia, Illinois, he was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley.

Personal facts

Birth date	April 24, 1919
Birth place	Centralia Illinois , United States
Nationality	United States
Date of death	July 08, 2010
Place of death	Berkeley California
Education	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for	Rao–Blackwell theorem Determinacy Blackwell channel Arbitrarily varying channel Recursive economics Mathematical economics Dirichlet distribution Sequential analysis