Nancy Geller

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Nancy Lorch Geller (born 1944) [1] is an American biostatistician, the director of biostatistics research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and a former president of the American Statistical Association. [2]

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Education

Geller studied mathematics at the City College of New York, graduating in 1965. She then went to Case Western Reserve University for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1967 and completing her doctorate in 1972. [3] Although she had enjoyed probability theory as an undergraduate, and entered graduate school intending to study the same subject, she ended up doing her graduate work in statistics. [2] Her dissertation, supervised by Lajos Takács, was On distribution of Some Kolmogrov-Smirnov Type Statistics. [4]

Career

Geller took faculty positions in statistics at the University of Rochester from 1970 to 1972 and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1978. Uninterested in economics, she moved again to do biostatistics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1979 and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 to 1990, when she took her position at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. [2] [3]

She served as president of the American Statistical Association for 2011. [2]

Awards and honors

Geller became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993. [3] She is the 2009 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences. [3]

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References

  1. Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cochrane, James (April 1, 2016), "ASA Leaders Reminisce: Nancy Geller", Amstat News, retrieved 2017-10-18
  3. 1 2 3 4 Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award, University of Alabama School of Public Health, retrieved 2017-10-18. See also the linked curriculum vitae.
  4. Nancy Geller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project