Stigler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Franz Stigler Oberleutnant Ludwig Franz Stigler (21 August 1915 – 22 March 2008) was a German fighter pilot and fighter ace in World War II. He is best known for his role in a December 1943 incident in which he spared the crew of a severely damaged B-1 ...

(1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety in 1943 *

George Stigler George Joseph Stigler (; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics. Early life and ...

(1911–1991), Nobel Prize–winning U.S. economist, associated with the ''Stigler Commission'' and ''Stigler diet''; father of Stephen Stigler *

James W. Stigler James W. Stigler is an American psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles and a Fellow of the Precision Institute at National Universi ...

, American psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author * Michael Stigler (born 1992), American track and field athlete *

Stephen Stigler Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the ...

(born 1941), professor at the University of Chicago, known for ''Stigler's law of eponymy''; son of George Stigler * William G. Stigler (1891–1952), American politician in Oklahoma

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Stigler, Oklahoma Stigler is a city in and county seat of Haskell County, Oklahoma. The population was 2,685 at the time of the 2010 census, down from 2,731 recorded in 2000. History At the time of its founding, Newman, later Stigler, was located in Sans Bois C ...

, a city Haskell County ** Stigler Regional Airport, owned by the city of Stigler * Stigler Commission, convened in 1961 to study the measurement of inflation in the United States *

Stigler diet The Stigler diet is an optimization problem named for George Stigler, a 1982 Nobel Laureate in economics, who posed the following problem: The nutrient RDAs required to be met in Stigler’s experiment were calories, protein, calcium, iron, as well ...

, an optimization problem regarding recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) *

Stigler's law of eponymy Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication ''Stigler’s law of eponymy'', states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples inclu ...

, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer **

List of examples of Stigler's law Stigler's law concerns the supposed tendency of eponymous expressions for scientific discoveries to honor people other than their respective originators. Examples include: A *Aharonov–Bohm effect. Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond E. Siday first ...

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