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Solomon Kullback
Born(1907-04-03)April 3, 1907
Brooklyn, New York, United States
DiedAugust 5, 1994(1994-08-05) (aged 87)
Boynton Beach, Florida
Alma materCity College of New York (B.A., 1927; M.A., 1929)
George Washington University (Ph.D., Mathematics, 1934)
Known forWork in Information theory, Kullback–Leibler divergence
Scientific career
Fieldscryptanalysis, mathematics, information theory
InstitutionsGeorge Washington University, National Security Agency
Doctoral advisorFrank M. Weida
Doctoral studentsHubert Lilliefors

Solomon Kullback (April 3, 1907 – August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and its eventual successor, the National Security Agency (NSA). Kullback was the Chief Scientist at the NSA until his retirement in 1962, whereupon he took a position at the George Washington University.

The Kullback–Leibler divergence is named after Kullback and Richard Leibler.

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