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 Wilfred Keith Hastings)

Publications

• 1970: Statistical Study of Digits of Some Square Roots of Integers in Various Bases (Math. Comp. Vol. 24: pp. 455 – 473) (with W.A. Beyer and J.R. Neergaard)  www.jstor.org/stable/2004493