John Tukey is the "inventor" of box and whisker plots. See Chapter 2 in:
John W. Tukey
Exploratory Data Analysis
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Reading, MA
1977
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> One reference for the construction is J.L Devore, Probability
> and Statistics. 1995. 4th Edition. Duxbury Press, Boston MA.
> I came across it as the "Box plot Rule" in a biotech industry
> publication (Panvera, now defunct I believe). It was part of
> a discussion of methods for detecting and handling outliers in data.
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