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til 1948, he also taught at Syracuse University and UCLA. During this period,
he spent part of his time as a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley, where he began collaborations with E. L. Lehmann. During
1948-1953, he was an associate professor of mathematical statistics at Co-
lumbia University.
In 1953, Scheffé moved to the University of California, Berkeley, as a
professor of statistics and remained there until retirement in 1974. During
1965-1968, he became the Chairman of the statistics department at Berkeley.
Scheffé wrote the authoritative book, The Analysis of Variance, which
was published in 1959 (Wiley). The papers of Lehmann and Scheffé (1950,
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1955, 1956, Sankhya) on completeness, similar regions and unbiased estima-
tion have had a tremendous influence on research in statistics. Scheffé’s fun-
damental contributions in the area of multiple comparisons have provided
essential tools used by statisticians everywhere. His contributions in the area
of the Behrens-Fisher problem are also particularly noteworthy.
Scheffé received many honors. He was President (1954) of the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, Vice President (1954-1956) of the American Sta-
tistical Association, and he received the Fulbright Research Award (1962-
1963).
Scheffé enjoyed reading novels. He was fond of bicycling, swimming,
snorkeling and backpacking. He loved nature and enjoyed travelling. Later in
life, he learned to play the recorder and played chamber music with friends.
After his retirement from Berkeley in 1974, he joined the University of Indiana
in Bloomington for three years as a professor of mathematics. He returned to
Berkeley in June, 1977 to start the process of revising his book, The Analysis
of Variance. Daniel and Lehmann (1979) noted that this was not to be - Scheffé
died on July 5, 1977 from the injuries he sustained in a bicycle accident
earlier that day.
By action of the Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the
1979 volume of the Annals of Statistics was dedicated to the memory of
Henry Scheffé. Its opening article, prepared by Daniel and Lehmann (1979)
detailed his life and career.
C. Stein: Charles Stein was born on March 22, 1920, in Brooklyn, New
York. He received B.S. (1940) in mathematics from the University of Chi-
cago. He served in the U. S. Army Air Force during 1942-1946 and became a
Captain. He earned Ph.D. (1947) in mathematical statistics from Columbia
University, and joined the faculty of Statistical Laboratory at the University of
California, Berkeley.
In 1949-1950, Stein was a National Research Council Fellow in Paris.
He was an associate professor at the University of Chicago during 1951-