Obituary
James (Jim) Pickands III, emeritus professor of statistics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, died March 9, 2022. He was 90.
Jim graduated from Yale and completed a doctorate in Mathematical Statistics at Columbia in 1965 with Simeon Berman as adviser. He then joined the Department of…
Donald (Don) F. Morrison passed away peacefully on July 11, 2022 at the age of 91. He was a professor in the Department of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Prior to Penn, Don worked in research positions at…
IMS Fellow Klaus Krickeberg shares some of his memories of and reflections on Sir David Cox (1924–2022), as a complement to the obituary that appeared in the April/May 2022 IMS Bulletin.
The IMS Bulletin published in Volume 51, Issue 3, an extensive and thorough account of the scientific work…
Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen passed away on June 26, 2022, in Aarhus after a short period of illness. He was born in Copenhagen on March 18, 1935. He made vast contributions in several fields of knowledge, including statistics, probability, econometrics, and theoretical physics. The velocity at which the sad news of…
Bert Fristedt died in his sleep on July 18, 2020, at the age of 83.
Bert was born on April 8, 1937 in Minneapolis. He spent his entire life in Minnesota, with the exception of his time in graduate school and one year each at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and…