Lawrence Shepp
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Lawrence Shepp is an American mathematician, specialising in statistics and computational tomography.
Shepp obtained his PhD from Princeton University with a dissertation entitled Recurrent Sums of Random Variables. His advisor was William Feller. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1962. He joined Rutgers University in 1997.
His work in tomography has had biomedical imaging applications, and he has also worked as Professor of Radiology at Columbia University (1973-1996), as a mathematician in the radiology service of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
He was awarded the IEEE Distinguished Scientist Award in 1979, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Science in 1989 and a member of the Institute of Medicine since 1992.
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