Kimiko Osada Bowman, age 91, passed away on January 13, 2019. Kim immigrated to the USA from her native Japan in 1951. In the course of only five years, she completed an undergraduate degree in mathematics and chemistry at Radford College, and MS and PhD degrees in statistics at Virginia…

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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…

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Joan Eliot Raup Rosenblatt, a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and former President of the Women’s Caucus of the ASA, died in Rockville, Maryland on 5 December 2018 at the age of 92. Her distinguished career in public service includes four decades…

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Frank Rudolf Hampel, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, passed away in Thalwil near Zurich, Switzerland, on October 2, at the age of 77. Frank Hampel was well known for his fundamental contributions to robust statistics, in particular for the introduction of the basic concepts of influence function and breakdown point.…

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Prodyot Kumar Bhattacharya passed away March 9, 2018, at his home in Davis, California. He was professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis and contributed to the field of statistics during a career that spanned more than 50 years. PK, as he was called by many colleagues and…

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