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Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 20, 1928. To the statistical community he was affectionately called “Chuck.” He graduated from Xavier University at an early age, and then attended Notre Dame University where he earned a masters degree in mathematics and statistics in 1948, and…
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The former chairman of the Statistics department, Paul was a force in his intellectual pursuits as well as in his leadership…
Patrick Billingsley, scholar, writer, and actor, died Friday, April 22 at the age of 85. He is survived by his children Franny, Patty, Julie, Marty and Paul, and by his companion, Florence Weisblatt. His late wife of nearly 50 years, social activist Ruth Billingsley, died in 2000.
Billingsley was born…
The world’s mathematical community lost one of its most prominent members when Professor Anatolii Vladimirovich Skorokhod died on January 3, 2011. Anatolii Skorokhod was born on September 10, 1930 in Nikopol, Ukraine. In 1948, he graduated from secondary school (with a gold medal) and entered the Kyiv State University, where…
Bernard Harris passed away peacefully on January 28, 2011, at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, La., following complications from heart surgery.
Bernard was born on June 20, 1926, in New York City, the son of Samuel S. and Ella L. (Heyman) Harris. An academically precocious youngster, he graduated…