birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
new york city american statistics florida international university 13 july 1930 shapiro -- wilk test shapiro -- francia test samuel sanford shapiro
 samuel s. shapiro rutgers university columbia university city college of new york
samuel sanford shapiro

samuel sanford shapiro -lrb- born july 13 , 1930 -rrb- is an american statistician and engineer .
he is a professor emeritus of statistics at florida international university .
he is known for his co-authorship of the shapiro -- wilk test and the shapiro -- francia test .
a native of new york city , shapiro graduated from city college of new york with a degree in statistics in 1952 , and took an ms in industrial engineering at columbia university in 1954 .
he briefly served as a statistician in the us army chemical corps , before earning a ms -lrb- 1960 -rrb- and phd -lrb- 1963 -rrb- in statistics at rutgers university .
in 1972 he joined the faculty at florida international university .
