Editing Jacob Wolfowitz (section)

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{{short description|American statistician (born 1910)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jacob Wolfowitz
| image = Jacob Wolfowitz.jpg
| image_size = 225px
| caption = Wolfowitz in 1970 (photo courtesy of MFO)
| birth_date = {{birth_date|1910|03|19}}
| birth_place = [[Warsaw]], [[Congress Poland]], Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death_date_and_age|1981|07|16 |1910|03|19}}
| death_place = [[Tampa, Florida]], U.S.
| nationality = American
| fields = Statistics
| workplaces = [[Cornell University]]<br>[[Columbia University]]<br>[[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]<br>[[University of South Florida]]
| education = [[City University of New York]]<br>[[New York University]]
| doctoral_advisor = Donald Flanders
| doctoral_students = [[Albert H. Bowker]]<br>[[Jack Kiefer (statistician)|Jack Kiefer]]<br>[[Gottfried E. Noether]]<br>[[Howard Levene]]<br>[[Samuel Kotz]]
| known_for = [[Wald–Wolfowitz runs test]]<br>[[Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality]]
| spouse = Lillian Dundes
| children = [[Paul Wolfowitz]]
}}

'''Jacob Wolfowitz''' (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born [[American Jews|American Jewish]] [[statistician]] and [[Claude E. Shannon Award|Shannon Award]]-winning [[information theory|information theorist]].  He was the father of former [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense]] and [[World Bank Group]] President [[Paul Wolfowitz]].