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Jerzy Neyman
Times obituary
Professor Jerzy Neyman, the distinguished Russian-born mathematician and statistician, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1938 to 1955, died on August 5 at the age of 87.
He was appointed Director of the Statistics Laboratory in 1938, was subsequently made professor emeritus, and was later recalled. It was Neyman who helped to establish the statistical theory of hypothesis testing.
He was born on April 16, 1894, and was at the University of Kharkov from 1912 to 1916. He took a PhD at Warsaw in 1923, and in 1925-26 was at London University doing postdoctoral study. He was a special lecturer at University College, 1934-35, and reader in statistics from 1935 to 1938.
He subsequently went to the United States to join the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where, with the assistance of an increasing number of statisticians who were his pupils, he established a center that attained an international reputation for mathematical statistics. His work achieved wide application in genetics, medicine, diagnosis, astronomy, and meteorology.
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1979 and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Professor Jerzy Neyman, the distinguished Russian-born mathematician and statistician, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1938 to 1955, died on August 5 at the age of 87.
He was appointed Director of the Statistics Laboratory in 1938, was subsequently made professor emeritus, and was later recalled. It was Neyman who helped to establish the statistical theory of hypothesis testing.
He was born on April 16, 1894, and was at the University of Kharkov from 1912 to 1916. He took a PhD at Warsaw in 1923, and in 1925-26 was at London University doing postdoctoral study. He was a special lecturer at University College, 1934-35, and reader in statistics from 1935 to 1938.
He subsequently went to the United States to join the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where, with the assistance of an increasing number of statisticians who were his pupils, he established a center that attained an international reputation for mathematical statistics. His work achieved wide application in genetics, medicine, diagnosis, astronomy, and meteorology.
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1979 and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
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