Arianna W. Rosenbluth
Arianna Wright Rosenbluth (September 15, 1927 – December 28, 2020) was an American physicist who contributed to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. She wrote the first full implementation of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
Arianna W. Rosenbluth | |
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Rosenbluth in 2013 | |
| Born | Arianna Wright September 15, 1927 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 2020 (aged 93) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Education | Lamar High School, Houston |
| Alma mater | Rice Institute Radcliffe College Harvard University |
| Known for | Metropolis algorithm |
| Spouse |
Marshall Rosenbluth
(m. 1951; div. 1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
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