Arianna W. Rosenbluth

Arianna W. Rosenbluth
Rosenbluth in 2013
Born	Arianna Wright (1927-09-15)September 15, 1927 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 28, 2020(2020-12-28) (aged 93) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Education	Lamar High School, Houston
Alma mater	Rice Institute Radcliffe College Harvard University
Known for	Metropolis algorithm
Spouse	Marshall Rosenbluth ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1978)​
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, computer science
Institutions	Stanford University Los Alamos National Laboratory
Doctoral advisor	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

Arianna Wright Rosenbluth (September 15, 1927 – December 28, 2020) was an American physicist who contributed to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. She wrote the first full implementation of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method.