Walter Andrew Shewhart

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Born: 18 March 1891 in New Canton Illinois, USA
Died: 11 March 1967 in Troy Hills, New Jersey, USA

Most of Walter Shewhart's career was spent in the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He worked on statistical tools to examine when a corrective action must be applied to a process.

Shewhart wrote on statistical control of industrial processes and applications to measurement processes in science. His control chart techniques have been widely adopted.