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unusual facts about E. J. G. Pitman


E. J. G. Pitman

His work the Pitman measure of closeness or Pitman nearness concerning the exponential families of probability distributions has been studied extensively since the 1980s by C. R. Rao, Pranab K. Sen, and others.


Anne Tompkins

She is one of four openly LGBT U.S. Attorneys, alongside Jenny Durkan of the Western District of Washington, Laura Duffy of the Southern District of California and Robert L. Pitman of the Western District of Texas.

Frederick I. Pitman

They had two daughters; Anna Dorothy (1892-1972), who married Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, and Isabel Mary (1891-?), who married the surgeon Sidney Maynard Smith - her son was the biologist John Maynard Smith.

Cambridge lost the Boat Race in 1885 and in the same year Pitman challenged in the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls but was beaten in both by the holder W. S. Unwin.

Pitcombe

Herbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE (1877 – 1961) was the Third Officer on board the Titanic.


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