Harold Hotelling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold Hotelling

American economist and statistician

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1895

Place of Birth: Fulda, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1973

Profession: mathematician, economist, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Harold Hotelling (; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics.
He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science. He was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 until his death.
A street in Chapel Hill bears his name.
In 1972, he received the North Carolina Award for contributions to science.