Obituary
Paul Shaman wrote these remarks, edited and expanded from his comments at the dinner on November 30th, during the posthumous tribute to Larry Brown held November 30–December 1, 2018, at University of Pennsylvania.
The Penn Department of Statistics is now in its 88th year. Over this period of time…
We mark the passing of Dr. Joel Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, on December 5, 2018, at his home in Westlake Village, California. He was 72 years old.
Joel was born on March 16, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. His family said, about Joel’s early attraction to…
David Hinkley, who died peacefully at his home in California on 11 January 2019, made important and broad-ranging contributions to statistical theory and methods.
David was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent, England. After leaving school he studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, where he was…
On March 29, 2019, Harry Kesten lost a decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He died in Ithaca, aged 87.
Harry was born in Duisburg, Germany, on November 19, 1931. His parents escaped from the Nazis in 1933 and moved to Amsterdam. After undergraduate studies in Amsterdam, he worked as a…