Svante Bjarne Wold (March 14, 1941 – January 4, 2022) was a Norwegian-born chemist and applied statistician who developed the field of "

chemometrics Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics, ap ...

", coining the word in 1971. He was the son of the statistician Hermann Wold. Wold was born in

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, the son of statistician Hermann and his wife Anna-Lisa Arrhenius, daughter of the physicist

Svante Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius ( , ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. In 1903, he received ...

. After military training, he joined the University of Uppsala, and then

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where he received a doctorate in chemistry. He joined the department of organic chemistry, later becoming a professor. In 1971, he coined the term ''kemometri'' which was translated into English as "chemometrics" and founded the International Chemometrics Society along with Bruce Kowalski. In later years he would joke that chemometricians were people who drank beer and stole ideas from statisticians. His postdoctoral work was at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He founded the multivariate statistical software company Umetrics along with his wife Nouna Kettaneh. He was involved in the development of the multivariate classification method known as '' Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy'' and the software called SIMCA.

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