An evening spent with Bill van Zwet

DOI10.1214/08-STS261zbMATH Open1327.01034arXiv0910.3112OpenAlexW3101465400MaRDI QIDQ900477FDOQ900477

Authors: Rudolf Beran, N. I. Fisher 

Publication date: 22 December 2015

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Willem Rutger van Zwet was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on March 31, 1934. He received his high school education at the Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague and obtained his Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of Leiden in 1959. After serving in the army for almost two years, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1964, with Jan Hemelrijk as advisor. In 1965, he was appointed Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Leiden and promoted to Full Professor in 1968. He remained in Leiden until his retirement in 1999, while also serving as Associate Professor at the University of Oregon (1965), William Newman Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990--1996), frequent visitor and Miller Professor (1997) at the University of California at Berkeley, director of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute of Mathematics in the Netherlands (1992--1999), and founding director of the European research institute EURANDOM (1997--2000). At Leiden, he was Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (1982--1984). He served as chair of the scientific council and member of the board of the Mathematics Centre at Amsterdam (1983--1996) and the Leiden University Fund (1993--2005).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3112

zbMATH Keywords

OberwolfachBerkeley statisticsBernoulli societyEURANDOMEuropean meeting of statisticiansInternational Statistical Institutestatistics in Eastern Europe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03)

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