Background
Jack Kiefer was born on January 25, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Carl Jack Kiefer and Marguerite K. Rosenau.
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He then began graduate studies at Columbia University, under the supervision of Abraham Wald and Jacob Wolfowitz, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical statistics in 1952.
Career
He began his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942, but left after one year, taking up a position as first lieutenant in the United States Air Force during World World War World War II In 1946, he returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with bachelor"s and master"s degrees in economics and engineering in 1948 under the supervision of Harold Freeman. While still a graduate student, he began teaching at Cornell University, remaining there until 1979, when he retired from Cornell and accepted a new position as Miller Research Professor in the Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Kiefer died of a heart attack in Berkeley, California on August 10, 1981.
Achievements
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Kiefer was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1972) and of the United States National Academy of Sciences (elected 1975). From 1969–1970 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 1973, Kiefer and Michael Fisher were the first two Cornell faculty elected as Horace White Professors.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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American