Abraham Savitzky

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Abraham Savitzky (1919February 5, 1999) was an American analytical chemist.

He specialized in the digital processing of infrared spectra and was awarded seven patents in that field. While employed by the Perkin-Elmer Company, Savitzky coauthored with Marcel J. E. Golay an oft-cited paper describing the Savitzky-Golay Smoothing Filter for digital filtering.


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