Albert Hosmer Bowker (September 8, 1919 – January 20, 2008) was an American statistician and university administrator. Born in Massachusetts, he began his career at Stanford University in the late 1940s where he worked until the early 1950s. In 1953, he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[1] He then served as Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1963 to 1971. During this period, in 1964, he married his second wife, Rosedith Sitgreaves,[2] a notable statistician who had gone through the graduate program in statistics at Columbia University with Bowker and was at the time a professor at Columbia.[3] He went on to fserve as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1971 to 1980,[4] followed by a stint as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education in the Carter administration.[5] Afterward, he became Dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.
Albert Hosmer Bowker | |
|---|---|
| 5th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley | |
| In office 1971–1980 | |
| Preceded by | Roger W. Heyns |
| Succeeded by | Ira Michael Heyman |
| 2nd Chancellor of the City University of New York | |
| In office 1963–1971 | |
| Preceded by | John Rutherford Everett |
| Succeeded by | Robert Joseph Kibbee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 8, 1919 Winchendon, Massachusetts |
| Died | January 20, 2008 (aged 88) Portola Valley, California |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Institutions | |
Early life and education
editBowker was born on September 8, 1919, in Winchendon, Massachusetts. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a B.S. in mathematics and later went to Columbia University where he received a Ph.D. in statistics.[4]
References
edit- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ "Miss Sitgreaves And Dr. Bowker Marry in Easton", The New York Times, September 27, 1964.
- ^ Zheng, Tian; Ying, Zhiliang (2013), "Columbia University Statistics", Strength in numbers: the rising of academic statistics departments in the U.S, Springer, New York, pp. 27–38, MR 3077323. See in particular p. 35.
- ^ a b Doyle, Jim (2008-01-25). "Albert H. Bowker - UC Berkeley chancellor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
- ^ "Days of Cal | Albert H. Bowker". Bancroft.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-12-25. Retrieved 2011-12-06.