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Bickel, Peter John was born on September 21, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Eliezer and P. Madeleine (Moscovici) Bickel. came to the United States, 1957, naturalized, 1964.
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Bickel, Peter John was born on September 21, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Eliezer and P. Madeleine (Moscovici) Bickel. came to the United States, 1957, naturalized, 1964.
AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1960; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1988.
Assistant professor statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1964-1967;
associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1970;
professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1970;
department chairman statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-1979;
dean physical science, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1986;
department chairman statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1997. Visiting lecturer mathematics Imperial College, London, 1965-1966. Fellow J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1970-1971, Juris Doctor and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1984-1989.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization senior science fellow, 1974.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chair section U 1996-1997), Institute Mathematics Statistics (president 1980), American Statistical Association. Member NAS, Royal Statistical Society, International Statistical Institute, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences, Bernoulli Society (president 1990).
Married Nancy Kramer, March 2, 1964. Children: Amanda, Stephen.