Arianna W. Rosenbluth | |
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 Rosenbluth in 2013 | |
| Born | Arianna Wright September 15, 1927 |
| 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 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
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.