Samuel Kotz
Professor and Research
Scholar
at
The George Washington University
School
of Engineering & Applied Science
Department of
Engineering Management and System Engineering
Office: 1776 G Street
NW, Suite 110, Washington, D.C. 20052
Tel: (202) 994-7187
Fax: (202) 994-2045
Email:
kotz@gwu.edu
Kotz is the senior co-editor-in-chief of the
13-volume Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (1982-1999), an author or
co-author of over 140 articles on statistical methodology and theory, 12
books in the field of statistics and quality control. He is Fellow of
the Royal Statistical Society, Fellow of the American Statistical
Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and
Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.
Samuel Kotz was born in Harbin, China, on August 28,
1930. After graduating with honors in 1946 from the Russian School in
Harbin, he studied electrical engineering at Harbin Institute of
Technology during 1947-1949. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel, where,
after two years of military service, he studied at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, obtaining an M.A. with honors in Mathematics in 1956.
Following two years at the Israeli Meteorological Service, he entered
graduate school at Cornell University and obtained a Ph.D. degree in
Mathematics in 1960. After research positions at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Toronto, he joined the
latter institution as an Associate Professor in 1964. He moved to Temple
University, Philadelphia, in 1967 as Professor of Mathematics and then
to the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1979 as Professor in the
College of Business and Management. He took early retirement and moved
to George Washington University in 1997.
Samuel Kotz has made substantial contributions in
several areas of statistics--including systems of distributions,
measures of dependence, multivariate analysis, characterizations, limit
distributions, replacement theory, quality control, information theory
and applications of statistics. He is the senior coeditor-in-chief of
the thirteen-volume Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, an
author or coauthor of over one hundred and fifty articles on statistical
methodology and theory, twelve books in the field of statistics and
quality control and three Russian-English scientific dictionaries and
coauthor of the often-cited compendium of statistical distributions. His
efforts, excellence and contributions were recognized by the award of
honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology
(China) in 1988, from the University of Athens (Greece) in 1995 and from
Bowling Green State University (Ohio, U.S.A.) in 1997. In 1997 a volume
containing thirty-eight essays was published in honor of his sixty-fifth
birthday. He was awarded membership in the Washington Academy of
Sciences in 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society,
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International
Statistical Institute.
