Weaver, Warren

Particle-size distributions of pigment suspensions. Ind. Eng. Chem., Anal. Ed., 11 471 175 Mason, Max and Weaver, Warren. 

Weaver, Warren. Science and Imagination. Basic Books, Inc., New York. 1967. 

The maximum-entropy (maxEnt) approach involves the use of a measure of the uncertainty in a distribution (Shannon-Weaver entropy). The idea is to choose the distribution type that has maximum uncertainty subject to specification of some features of the distribution such as the range or a few moments or percentiles. Warren-Hicks and Moore (1998) list maxEnt solutions for a number of situations. In particular when only a min and max is available the maxEnt solution is the uniform distribution. The solution when the information available is the mean and variance, and the min and max are infinite, is the normal distribution. 

Weaver W (1967) Science and imagination selected papers of Warren Weaver. Basic Books, New York London,... 

It took the intervention of one of the most powerful men in science to break the impasse. Warren Weaver was... 

It assembled itself by stages. He was not yet ready emotionally to set aside his peacetime plans. Warren Weaver, the director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, visited Berkeley in February to see how construction was progressing on the 4,900-ton, 184-inch cyclotron for which the foundation had awarded a 1,150,000 grant less than twelve months earlier. Lawrence took time to complain about the Uranium Committee s sloth—Weaver worked with another division of the NDRC— but then drove up behind the university to the cyclotron site on the hillside and first irritated and then enthralled the Rockefeller administrator with visions of a superior and much larger machine. 

Molecular architecture and medical progress. In The Scientists Speak, Warren Weaver, ed., Boni Gear, Inc., New York, (1947), pp. 110-114. The nature of forces between large molecules of biological interest. Nature 161 (1948) 707-709. SP 114 ... 

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