Background
Rider, Paul Reece was born on October 14, 1888 in Independence, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter and Alwilda (Reece) Rider.
Rider, Paul Reece was born on October 14, 1888 in Independence, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter and Alwilda (Reece) Rider.
AB, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, 1909. Am, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, 1910. AM, Yale University, 1914.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1915.
Instructor mathematics, Yale University, 1915-1916;
instructor, Washington U., 1916-1918;
assistant professor, Washington U., 1918-1921;
associate professor, Washington U., 1921-1939;
professor, Washington U., 1939-1954;
professor emeritus, Washington U., from 1954. Adjunct Professor University Texas, summer 1920. United States Exchange professor National University of Mexico, 1942-1943, under Buenos Aires Convention of 1936 for Promotion of Inter.
American Cultural Relations. Visiting professor University of Puerto Rico, 1965. Member of faculty United States Army U. Shrivenham, England, and commanded school in Germany, 1945-1946.
Consultant United States Air Force, S.W. Bell Telephone Сompany, American Ordnance Association, Ohio StateU. Research Foundation and others. Chief statistician Aerospace Research laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1951-1964. Visiting professor Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1965-1967.
Member Joint Superior vena cava syndrome Advisory Committee Department Defense, 1953-1955. Second lieutenant CAC, World War I, 1918.
Fellow American Statistical Association (chairman section physical and engineering science 1960, council), Institute of Mathematics Statistics (vice president 1937-1938, president 1939, secretary-treasurer 1940), American Society Quality Control. Member International Association Statistics in Physical Sciences, International Inter-American Statistical Institutes, American Math Society, Mathematics Association American, Econometric Society, Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, American Association of University Professors, Sons of the American Revolution, University Club (St. Louis), Cosmos Club (Washington), Acacia, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Kappa Alpha, Gamma Alpha, Pi Mu Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Madeline Elizabeth Bostian, October 5, 1918 (deceased October 1974). Children: Paul Reece, William Bostian, Margaret Rider Moore.