Shewhart, Walter A. (deceased)

Referred to as the father of statistical quality control because he brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering and economics. He described the basic principles of this new discipline in his book Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. Shewhart, ASQ's first Honorary Member, was best known for creating the control chart. Shewhart worked for Western Electric and AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, in addition to lecturing and consulting on quality control.