Albert Hosmer Bowker (September 8, 1919 – January 20, 2008) was an American

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and university administrator. Born in

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, he worked at

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in the late 1940s to early 1950s. In 1953, he was elected as a

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. He then served as Chancellor of the

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from 1963 to 1971. During this period, in 1964, he married his second wife,

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, herself a notable statistician who had gone through the graduate program in statistics at

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He served as Chancellor of the

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from 1971 to 1980 until serving as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education in the

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. After 1 year, he went to the

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to serve as Dean of the School of Public Affairs. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.

Early life and education

Bowker was born on September 8, 1919, in Winchendon, Massachusetts. He attended the

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where he received a B.S. in mathematics and later went to

where he received a Ph.D. in statistics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowker, Albert H. 1919 births 2008 deaths American statisticians Deaths from pancreatic cancer Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty University System of Maryland people University of California, Berkeley faculty People from Winchendon, Massachusetts Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley Chancellors of City University of New York Fellows of the American Statistical Association 20th-century American academics