Jane Worcester | |
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Died | 8 October 1989 Falmouth, Massachusetts |
Alma mater | Smith College, Harvard University |
Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biostatistics, Epidemiology |
Institutions | Harvard School of Public Health |
Thesis | The Epidemiology of Streptococcal and Non-Streptococcal Respiratory Disease (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Edwin B. Wilson |
Jane Worcester (died 8 October 1989) [1] was a biostatistician and epidemiologist who became the second tenured female professor, after Martha May Eliot, and the first female chair of biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health. [2] [3]
Worcester graduated from Smith College in 1931, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and was hired by Harvard biostatistician Edwin B. Wilson to become a human computer at Harvard. [2] [4] She was hired because of her strong background in statistics. [1] They continued to work together on theoretical research in biostatistics until Wilson retired as chair of the department in 1945, [2] eventually publishing 27 papers together. [1] Worcester completed a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Harvard under Wilson's supervision in 1947; her dissertation was The Epidemiology of Streptococcal and Non-Streptococcal Respiratory Disease. [5]
She joined the Harvard faculty, was granted tenure in 1962, [3] and succeeded Robert Reed as chair of the Department of Biostatistics in 1974 [1] until 1977, when she retired. [1] [2] [6]
She moved to Falmouth on Cape Cod and died there on October 8, 1989 at 88 years of age.
She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1960. [7] In 1968, Smith College awarded her an honorary doctorate. [4]
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