Obituary
We publish obituaries in the IMS Bulletin of any IMS member or IMS Fellow — and, on occasion, of other prominent members of our communities. Sometimes, the news of someone’s passing may take some time to reach us, so please, if you hear that a colleague or collaborator has died,…
IMS Fellow Hélène Menexia Massam, Professor of Statistics at York University, Toronto, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 71.
Née Kampouris, Hélène was born January 10, 1949 and grew up in Marseille, France. Soon after her admission to the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud at the age…
Xiangrong Yin, Professor of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, passed away suddenly on the afternoon of August 11th, 2020, at the age of 54.
Xiangrong Yin was born in 1966 in Changxing, China. His conscientious and hardworking traits, combined with his passion for mathematics, led him to study at…
Donald P. Gaver, Jr., was born on February 16, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He spent his childhood in St. Paul with his family including his sister Nancy. He attended the St. Paul Academy where he excelled in science and mathematics. He was encouraged to apply to MIT and was…
Willem Rutger van Zwet, emeritus professor at the Mathematical Institute Leiden, passed away in the morning of July 2, 2020 at the age of 86 years.
Willem (“Bill”) van Zwet was born in 1934 in Leiden, and attended the gymnasium (high school with classics) in The Hague. During his subsequent…