Obituary
Charles (Chuck) Joel Stone, emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, died on April 16, 2019, at the age of 82. He was survived by his wife Barbara and two sons (and their families). Chuck received many honors during his career, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980.…
S. James (Jim) Press, a distinguished professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Riverside, passed away November 25, 2020, just shy of his 90th birthday.
The field of statistics has lost one of its greats in the area of Bayesian multivariate analysis. Jim’s fundamental research contributions were in…
Leo Goodman, one of the towering figures in statistics, and particularly in its application to sociology, died on December 22, 2020, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 92.
Leo was born in Brooklyn in 1928. He obtained a BA in mathematics and sociology in 1948 from Syracuse University,…
On December 21, 2020, Canada and the world lost one of their most eminent and influential statisticians, Donald Alexander Stuart Fraser, OC, FRSC, who passed away at the age of 95. By his side was his wife Nancy Reid, herself a distinguished statistician.
Don’s exceptional path as a scientist,…
Gordon Mackenzie Harrington, who was a longterm member of IMS, died in 2015 aged 90, but we only learned about his death recently.
The following is condensed from an obituary that appeared in the Waterloo Courier, and was reproduced on the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) website.
Gordon Harrington…