Obituary
Arjun K. Gupta passed away peacefully at his residence in Bowling Green, Ohio on December 25, 2022. He was 84.
Dr. Gupta was born in 1938 in the small village of Purkazi in Uttar Pradesh, India, to Amar Nath and Leelavati Gupta. He earned his bachelor’s degree in statistics from…
Wojbor Andrzej Woyczyński, Professor at Case Western Reserve University, passed away on the 14th of August 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 77 years old. He is survived by his children Martin Wojbor, Gregory Holbrook, and Lauren Pike, and by his wife Elizabeth Holbrook Woyczynski. Wojbor has left an indelible…
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…