Mary Gibbons Natrella (September 23, 1922 – May 18, 1988)[1][2][3][4] was an American statistician and "an expert on the application of modern statistical techniques in physical science experimentation and engineering testing".
[6][7] It became one of their "all-time best selling publications"[8] and has been recognized as "a monumental work" with "deep and long-lasting impact on the application of statistics to the planning and analysis of scientific experiments".
After earlier studies at Keystone College, she completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1942.
[2] In 1946, she married Joseph Victor Natrella, a mathematician for the Air Force who later worked for NASA.
[5] Before writing her book, NBS Handbook 91 Experimental Statistics, Natrella helped produce defense standard MIL-STD-105 for acceptance sampling.