OBITUARY- Joseph William Richards

OBITUARY : Joseph Leonard

Joseph Leonard Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on 27 February 1910. In an interview Joe gave for Statistical Science (see Snell (1997)), he said that in grammar school he built a crystal set and in high school operated a radio transmitter. This led him to think he would major in mathematical physics when he entered Harvard in 1926. However, after taking two physics courses, Doob decided ...

Theodore William Richards

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

Theodore William Richards: apostle of atomic weights and Nobel Prize winner in 1914.

In recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements, T. W. Richards received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914. His meticulous techniques resulted in "a degree of accuracy never before attained". This Essay follows Richards from his precocious youth to becoming a celebrated chemist and emphasizes his dedication to forseeing likely sourc...