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Shewhart: Father of Statistical Quality Control
Walter Andrew Shewhart (1891–1967)
1917: Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley
1918: Joined Western Electric Company (supplier to AT&T)
1924: Invented the Control Diagram
1924-1932: Initiated study on sensitivity of worker productivity to light
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mprovements were later attributed to management attention