Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff
Chernoff speaking in New York on October 6, 2015
Born	(1923-07-01)July 1, 1923 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 6, 2026(2026-07-06) (aged 103) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	City College of New York Brown University
Known for	Chernoff bound Chernoff's distribution Chernoff face
Awards	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974) Member, National Academy of Sciences (1980) Wilks Memorial Award (1987) Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Statistics Physics
Workplaces	University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Stanford MIT Harvard
Thesis	Studentization in testing of hypotheses  (1948)
Doctoral advisor	Abraham Wald
Notable students	Stuart Geman Joseph B. Kadane

Herman Chernoff (July 1, 1923 – July 6, 2026) was an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, MIT, and at Harvard University.