Theodore Wilbur Wilbur Anderson

Background

Anderson, Theodore was born on June 5, 1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Theodore Wilbur Anderson and Evelynn Johnson Anderson.

Education

Bachelor of Science with highest distinction, Northwestern University, 1939. Doctor of Science, Northwestern University, 1989. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1942.

Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1945. Doctor of Letters, North Park University, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa), University Oslo, 1997.

Doctor (honorary), University Athens, 1999.

Career

Assistant department mathematics, Northwestern University, 1939-1940; instructor mathematics, Princeton University, 1941-1943; research associate, Princeton University, 1943-1945; research associate, Cowles Commission, University of Chicago, 1945-1946; staff, Columbia University, 1946-1967; successively instructor mathematics statistics, assistant professor, associate professor, Columbia University, 1946-1956; professor, Columbia University, 1956-1967; chairman mathematics statistics department, Columbia University, 1956-1960, 64-65; acting chairman, Columbia University, 1950-1951, 63; professor statistics and economics, Stanford University, 1967-1988; professor statistics and economics emeritus, Stanford University, since 1988. Director project Office Naval Research, 1950-1982. Principal investigator National Science Foundation project, 1969-1992, Army Research Office project, 1982-1992.

Visiting professor mathematics U.Moscow, 1968. Visiting professor statistics U. Paris, 1968. Visiting professor economics New York University, 1983-1984.

Academic visitor mathematics Imperial College Science and Technology, U. London, 1967-1968, London School Economics and Political Science, 1974-1975, University of Southern California, 1989. C.G. Khatri Memorial lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1992. Research visitorTokyo Institute Technology, 1977.

Sabbaticant International Business Machines Corporation Systems Research Institute, 1984. Research associate Naval Postgraduate School, 1986-1987. Consultant Research and Development Corporation, 1949-1966.

Member commission on basic research advisory Office Ordnance Research, National Academy Sciences-National Research Council, 1955-1958. Member panel on applied mathematics advisory National Bureau Standards, 1964-1965. Chairman of Commission on statistics National Research Council, 1961-1963.

Member Executive Committee Conference Board Mathematics Sciences, 1963-1964. Member commission on support research in mathematics science National Academy Sciences, 1965-1968. Member committee President's Statistical Socs., 1962-1964.

Science director North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute on Discriminant Analysis and Its Applications, 1972.

Achievements

• Theodore Wilbur Anderson has been listed as a noteworthy Statistics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Probability, Statistics and Mathematics: Papers in Honor of Samuel Karlin

    (Book by Anderson, T. W., Athreya, Krishna B.)

  • Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Data
  • A Bibliography of Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman of the section 1990-1991), American Statistical Association (Vice-President 1971-1973, Samuel S. Wilks Memorial medal 1988, Resident Advisor Fisher lecturer 1985), Econometric Society, Royal Statistical Society, Institute Mathematics Statistics (president 1963), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member NAS, American Mathematics Society, International Statistical Institutions, International Chinese Statistics Association, Psychometric Society (county directors), Bernouilli Society for Mathematics Statistics and Probability, Norwegian Academy Science and Letters (foreign), Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• Tennis, swimming, travelling.

Connections

Married Dorothy Fisher, July 8, 1950. Children: Robert Lewis, Janet Lynn, Jeanne Elizabeth.

Father:

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Mother:

Evelynn (Johnson) Anderson

Spouse:

Dorothy Fisher

child:

Robert Lewis Anderson

child:

Janet Lynn Anderson

child:

Jeanne Elizabeth Anderson