Mathematician:Nicholas Constantine Metropolis

Mathematician
Greek-American physicist who worked on the first nuclear reactors

One of the members of the original staff of fifty scientists working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: June 11, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, United States
 * 1923: BSc in physics from the Unversity of Chicago
 * 1941: PhD in physics from the Unversity of Chicago
 * 1943: Started working at Los Alamos
 * Died: October 17, 1999 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

Theorems and Inventions

 * Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm (with )