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; he is the son of the economist George Stigler. 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). Biography Stigler was born in Minneapolis. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics. Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society, and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman. Bibliography Books As editor Selected articles ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— Stigler, S. M. (1980). Stigler's law of eponymy. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 39: 147–58 (Merton Frestschrift Volume, F. Gieryn (ed)) ——— ——— See also Chicago school of economics George Stigler List of examples of Stigler's law Milton Friedman Stigler's law of eponymy References External links Official CV of Stephen M. Stigler (September 2015) Homepage at the University of Chicago Mathematics Genealogy Project: Stephen Mack Stigler University of California, Berkeley alumni Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Presidents of the International Statistical Institute Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the American Statistical Association American statisticians American historians of mathematics University of Chicago faculty Scientists from Minneapolis American people of German descent Living people 1941 births Mathematicians from Minnesota Members of the American Philosophical Society