Stephen Stigler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Stigler

American statistician

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1941

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Profession: economist, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is 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.
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).