Seymour Geisser

Background

Geisser, Seymour was born on October 5, 1929 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Leon and Rose (Kielmanowicz) Geisser.

Education

Bachelor, City College of New York, 1950; Master of Arts, U. North Carolina, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, U. North Carolina, 1955.

Career

Mathematician, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1955-1961; chief biometry section, National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, 1961-1965; professor statistics, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1965-1970; chairman, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1965-1970; professor, director, School Statistics University of Minnesota, since 1971. Professorial lecturer George Washington University, 1960-1965. Visiting associate professor Iowa State University, Ames, 1960.

Visiting professor University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1964, U. Tel-Aviv (Israel), 1971, U. Waterloo (Canada), 1972, Stanford University, 1976, 88, Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1976, U. Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1978, Harvard University School Public Health, 1981, University of Chicago, 1985, U. Warwick, Coventry, England, 1986. Member biometric and epidemiological methodology advising committee Food and Drug Administration, 1976-1978, member arthritis advising committee, 1978-1984. Member National Institutes of Health Biometry and Epidemiology Study section 1974-1976.

Commission on National Statistics, 1984-1987. Chairman National Academy Panel on Occupational and Health Statistics, 1985-1986. Expert witness on forensic statistics.

Lady Davis visiting professor Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1991.

Views

Quotations: "Statistics, Litigation and Conduct Unbecoming".

Membership

Fellow Institute Mathematics Statistics (member county 1978-1980), Royal Statistical Society, American Statistical Association (board directors 1964-1965). Member Biometric Society, Mathematics Association American, International Statistical Institute, Psychometric Society, Canada Statistical Society, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Mary Lee George, January 30, 1955(divorced April 21, 1977). Children— Mindy Sharon, Dan Levi, Georgia Lynn, Adam Dov. Married Anne S. Flaxman, March 21, 1982.

Father:

Leon Geisser

Mother:

Rose (Kielmanowicz) Geisser

Spouse:

Anne S. Flaxman

Spouse:

Mary Lee George