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    Albert H. Bowker

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    Albert Hosmer Bowker
    5th Chancellor of the
    University of California, Berkeley
    In office
    1971–1980
    Preceded byRoger W. Heyns
    Succeeded byIra Michael Heyman
    2nd Chancellor of the City University of New York
    In office
    1963–1971
    Preceded byJohn Rutherford Everett
    Succeeded byRobert Joseph Kibbee
    Personal details
    Born(1919-09-08)September 8, 1919
    Winchendon, Massachusetts
    DiedJanuary 20, 2008(2008-01-20) (aged 88)
    Portola Valley, California
    Academic background
    Alma mater
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Columbia University
    Academic work
    DisciplineStatistics
    Institutions
    • Stanford University
    • City University of New York
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • University of Maryland

    Albert Hosmer Bowker (September 8, 1919 – January 20, 2008) was an American statistician and university administrator. Born in Massachusetts, he worked at Stanford University in the late 1940s to early 1950s. In 1953, he was elected as 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] herself 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 served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1971 to 1980[4] until serving as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education in the Carter administration.[5] After 1 year, he went to the University of Maryland to serve as Dean of the School of Public Affairs. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.

    Early life and education[edit]

    Bowker 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]

    1. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
    2. ^ "Miss Sitgreaves And Dr. Bowker Marry in Easton", The New York Times, September 27, 1964.
    3. ^ 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.
    4. ^ a b Doyle, Jim (2008-01-25). "Albert H. Bowker - UC Berkeley chancellor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
    5. ^ "Days of Cal | Albert H. Bowker". Bancroft.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
    Academic offices
    Preceded by
    John Rutherford Everett
    		 Chancellor of the City University of New York
    1963 – 1971     		Succeeded by
    Robert Joseph Kibbee
    Preceded by
    Roger W. Heyns
    		 Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
    1971 – 1980     		Succeeded by
    Ira Michael Heyman
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