Education
He studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied with Erich Leo Lehmann.
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Peter John
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He is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. As a scientist and an educator, he has supervised and mentored many students and young researchers, many of whom later become leading figures in the fields of statistics and economics. These include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Mark van der Laan, Donald Andrews, etc.
Achievements
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1970 Guggenheim Fellow1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award1984 MacArthur Fellows Program1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
