Gunnar Kulldorff, a Fellow and long time member of IMS, passed away in Umeå, Sweden, on June 25, 2015. Gunnar was born in Malmö, Sweden, in 1928. He studied at Lund University and obtained his PhD in 1961. His dissertation, on the topic Contributions to the Theory of Estimation from…

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Peter William Meredith John passed away on January 22, 2015 at the age of 91. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth of 61 years, a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren. He will be remembered by friends and family for his warmth, kindness and humor and by his colleagues…

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  Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, passed away at home, surrounded by his family, on the morning of May 5. Bruce was holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State University, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1979 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at…

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Moshe Shaked, a leading figure in stochastic orders and distribution theory, died unexpectedly on October 28, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 69. Shaked is survived by his wife of 37 years, Edith; his son Tal; his two daughters, Shanna and Lila; his daughter in law, Carrie; his…

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Evarist Giné-Masdeu, known as Evarist Giné, last June at the conference in his honor in Cambridge, UK Evarist Giné-Masdeu—or just Evarist Giné—passed away on March 13 in Hartford, CT. He was a significant contributor and co-creator of several branches of modern probability theory that have been profoundly influential, in particular…

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