Editing Richard Threlkeld Cox (section)

==Biography==
He was born in [[Portland, Oregon]], the son of attorney Lewis Cox and Elinor Cox. After Lewis Cox died, Elinor Cox married John Latané, who became a professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1913. In 1915 Richard enrolled at Johns Hopkins University to study physics, but his studies were cut short when he was drafted for [[World War I]]. He stayed in the US after being drafted and returned to Johns Hopkins University after the war, completing his BA in 1920. He earned his PhD in 1924; his dissertation was ''A Study of Pfund's Pressure Gauge''.<ref name="tribus"/>

He taught at [[New York University]] (NYU) from 1924 to 1943, before returning to Johns Hopkins to teach. He studied probability theory, the scattering of electrons, and the discharges of [[electric eel]]s.<ref name="tribus"/> Richard Cox's most important work was [[Cox's theorem]].<ref>{{citation
 | last = Van Horn | first = Kevin S.
 | doi = 10.1016/S0888-613X(03)00051-3
 | issue = 1
 | journal = International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
 | mr = 2017777
 | pages = 3–24
 | title = Constructing a logic of plausible inference: a guide to Cox's theorem
 | volume = 34
 | year = 2003| doi-access = 
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His wife, [[Shelby Shackleford]] (1899 [[Halifax, Virginia]] – 1987), whom he married in 1926, was an accomplished artist and illustrated ''Electric Eel Calling'', a book on electric eels.<ref name="tribus"/>

He died on May 2, 1991. His doctoral students include [[Carl T. Chase]] and [[Clifford Shull]].