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full of people. He encouraged bright and upcoming researchers. He was very
approachable and he often said, “I like young people.” Neyman had a very
strong personality, but he also had a big heart.
Neyman received many honors and awards for his monumental contribu-
tions to statistical science. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences. He became a foreign member of both the Polish and the Swedish
Academies of Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He received the Guy
Medal in Gold from the Royal Statistical Society. He was awarded several
honorary doctorate degrees, for example, from the University of Chicago, the
University of California at Berkeley, the University of Stockholm, the Univer-
sity of Warsaw, and the Indian Statistical Institute.
In 1968, Neyman was awarded the highest honor an American scientist
could receive. He was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science from the
White House.
The article of LeCam and Lehmann (1974), prepared in celebration of
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Neyman’s 80 birthday, described and appraised the impact of his contribu-
tions. The biographical book of Reid (1982), Neyman from Life, portrays a
masterful account of his life and work. One may also look at the entry [Scott
(1985)] on Jerzy Neyman, included in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sci-
ences. Neyman died on August 5, 1981 in Berkeley, California.
E. S. Pearson: Egon Sharpe Pearson was born on August 11, 1895 in
Hampstead, England. His father was Karl Pearson. Egon Pearson finished his
school education in Oxford. He moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, and
obtained First Class in Part I of Mathematical Tripos. Due to ill-health and
time-out needed for war service, his B.A. degree from Cambridge was de-
layed and it was completed in 1920.
The Biometrika’s first issue came out in October 1901 when it was founded
by W. F. R. Weldon, F. Galton, and K. Pearson. From a very young age, Egon
Pearson saw how this journal was nurtured, and he grew emotionally at-
tached to it. In 1921, he joined his father’s internationally famous department
at the University College London as a lecturer of statistics.
Egon Pearson became the Assistant Editor of Biometrika in 1924. After
Karl Pearson resigned from the Galton Chair in 1933, his department was split
into two separate departments and R. A. Fisher was appointed as the new
Galton Professor whereas Egon Pearson became the Reader and Head of a
separate statistics department. Fisher did not like this arrangement very much.
Egon Pearson became a professor in 1935 and the Managing Editor of
Biometrika in 1936. He remained associated with the University College Lon-
don until his retirement in 1960.
Since early 1920’s, Egon Pearson started developing his own philoso-