Background
Meier, Paul was born on July 24, 1924 in New York City.
mathematics educator statistician
Meier, Paul was born on July 24, 1924 in New York City.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1945; postgraduate program in applied mathematics, Brown U., 1945; Master of Arts in Mathematics, Princeton University, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1951.
Assistant professor mathematics, Lehigh University, 1948-1949;
research secretary, Philadelphia Tuberculosis and Health Association, 1949-1951;
research associate analytical research group, Forrestal Research Center, Princeton University, 1951-1952;
research associate department biostatistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1952-1957;
assistant professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1953-1955;
associate professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1955-1957;
associate professor department statistics division biological science, University of Chicago, 1957-1962;
professor statistics, University of Chicago, since 1962;
department chairman statistics, University of Chicago, 1962-1992;
director biomedical Computation Facilities, University of Chicago, 1962-1969;
professor theoretical biology, University of Chicago, 1968-1974;
acting department chairman statistics, University of Chicago, 1970-1971;
department chairman statistics, University of Chicago, 1973-1974, 83-86;
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Distinguished Service Professor Statistics and the Pharmaceutical and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, 1975-1984;
special fellow National Institutes of Health, U. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Imperial College, 1966-1967;
Howard Levene Professor Statistics, Columbia University, New York City, since 1992;
department chairman statistics, Columbia University, New York City, since 1992;
head division biostatistics School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, since 1992. Member commission on lung cancer American Cancer Society, 1959-1962. Member special study section biomathematics and statistics National Institute General Medical Sciences National Institutes of Health, 1965-1970, mem.therapeutic evaluation committee, National Heart Institute, 1967-1971.
Member of advisory board Environmental Health Resource Center State of Illinois Institute Environmental Quality,1971-1975. Member Task Force on Health Considerations of National Energy Policy American Public Health Association, 1972-1974. Member of advisory board VA Cooperative Study of the Pathogenic Effects of Sickle Cell Trait, 1973-1978.
Member of advisory council department statistics Princeton University, 1974-1976. Member Computer and Biomath. Sciences Study Section National Institutes of Health, 1974-1977.
Visiting professor department statistics and center analysisof health practices Harvard School Public Health, 1975-1976. Director Data Quality Control Center for Persantine-Aspirin Reinfarction Study, 1975-1981;member Policy Advisory Board Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, 1976-1978. Member Committee on National Statistics, 1978-1981.
Member Clinical Trials Review Committee, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1978-1981. Director Data Audit Center for International Mexiletine and Placebo Antiarrhythmic Coronary Trial (IMPACT), 1979-1985. Visiting professor statistics Columbia University, New York City, 1991-1992.
Member of advisory committee anti-viral drugs Food and Drug Administration, 1990-1993.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association (board directors, vice president 1965-1967, Chairman of Commission on computers in statistics 1967, chairman of the section on training 1974), Royal Statistical Society, American Public Health Association, American Thoracic Society, Institute Math Statistics (Chairman of Commission on fellows 1979), American Heart Association (county on epidemiology, commission on fellows 1978) American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Biometric Society (Executive Committee Eastern North America Region, president Eastern North America Region, 1967), Society Clinical Trials (president 1991-1992), American Mathematics Society, Math Association American, Association for Symbolic Logic, Society for Industrial/Applied Math, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
M. Louise Goldstone; children: Diane, Karen, Joan.