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{{short description|American mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Robert R Coveyou
| birth_date = February 9, 1915
| birth_place = [[Petoskey, Michigan|Petoskey]], [[
| death_date = {{death date|mf=yes|1996|2|19}}
| death_place = [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]], [[
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| field = [[Mathematics]]<br /> [[Computer science]]
| work_institutions = [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]]<br />[[University of Tennessee]]
| known_for = [[Pseudorandom number generator|Pseudo-Random Number Generators]], [[Medical physics|Medical Physics]]
}}
'''Robert R.
An expert on [[Pseudorandom number generator|pseudo-random number generators]], today he is probably best known for the title of an article published
After the end of [[World War II]] he returned to Chicago to finish his undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and in the following year he received his
In the early 1950s, Coveyou was one of the scientists and engineers involved in the early introduction of computers to the [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] and has been credited with naming the first computer housed at the laboratory: the ORACLE ('''''O'''ak '''R'''idge '''A'''utomatic '''C'''omputer and '''L'''ogical '''E'''ngine''). In preparation for working on the computer in Oak Ridge,
Coveyou was a tournament chess player, and was [http://tnchess.us/?page_id=259 Tennessee State Champion] eight times. He is a member of the [http://tnchess.us/?page_id=138 Tennessee Chess Hall of Fame], having been inducted with the inaugural class in 1990.
One of Coveyou's memorable chess experiences was hosting 13-year-old [[Bobby Fischer]] at his hotel room in Cleveland, Ohio, after Fischer had just won the 1957 [[U.S. Open Chess Championship|U.S. Open]]. Coveyou, Fischer, and Edmar Mednis, a chess master from New York and friend of Fischer's, played informal games of chess for hours after the conclusion of the tournament, lasting into the early morning hours of the next day.
Bob Coveyou was also active politically and in the civil rights movement. He helped lead an effort to establish Scarboro High School in the [[African-American neighborhood]] of Oak Ridge. Prior to the school's opening, African American children there had had to bus to Knoxville, 30 miles away, to attend Austin High School.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=D. Ray|title=Education in Oak Ridge – Pre - Oak Ridge and Early - Oak Ridge Schools, part 2|url=http://smithdray1.net/historicallyspeaking/2006/11-21-06%20Education%20in%20Oak%20Ridge%20-%20pre%20Oak%20Ridge%20part%202.pdf|accessdate=2 January 2014}}</ref> The school operated from 1950 until Oak Ridge High School was desegregated in the fall of 1955.
==Notes==
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==External links==
* [https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub57692.pdf HISTORY OF THE ENGINEERING PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION 1955–1993]
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* [https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290783 Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0295]
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[[Category:Oak Ridge National Laboratory people]]
[[Category:People from Petoskey, Michigan]]
[[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]]
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