Lawrence Alan Shepp was an American mathematician, specializing in statistics and computational tomography.
Shepp obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 1961 with a dissertation entitled Recurrent Sums of Random Variables. His advisor was William Feller. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1962. He joined Rutgers University in 1997. He joined University of Pennsylvania in 2010.
His work in tomography has had biomedical imaging applications, and he has also worked as Professor of Radiology at Columbia University , as a mathematician in the radiology service of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Wikipedia
“Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered.”
On being told that a piece of work he thought was his discovery had duplicated an earlier mathematician's work. Quoted in "Pity the Scientist Who Discovers the Discovered" http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/weekinreview/05kolata.html by Gina Kolata, New York Times: Week in Review (2006-02-05)
