- Gottfried E. Noether
Gottfried Emanuel Noether (
Karlsruhe ,Germany 1915 -August 22 1991 ,Willimantic ,Connecticut ) was an Americanstatistician andeducator . He was the son ofFritz Noether and the nephew ofEmmy Noether .Noether emigrated to the
United States in 1939, where he earned abachelor's degree (1940) and amaster's degree (1941).The following four years, duringWorld War II , he served withUS Army intelligence inEngland ,France , andGermany . After the war, he earned adoctorate fromColumbia University (1949).He worked in
academia for the rest of his career, beginning atNew York University . He moved toBoston University in 1952 where he worked until he joined the faculty of theUniversity of Connecticut in 1968. There, he eventually becamechairman of the department of statistics. He retired in 1985.Noether served on a statistical advisory
committee for theUnited States Office of Management and Budget and as an associate editor of "The American Statistician ". He was a fellow of theAmerican Statistical Association and theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics .As an expert on
non-parametric statistics , he wrote over 50 articles and six books. He also wrote a brief biography of his father Fritz, who wasexecuted in theSoviet Union in 1941.In 1999 the
Gottfried E. Noether Awards were established to "recognize distinguished researchers and teachers and to support research in the field of nonparametric statistics."References
*cite news |first= |last=Hartford Courant |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Gottfried E. Noether |url= |format= |work=Hartford Courant |publisher= |id= |pages= |page=B6 |date=
August 26 ,1991 |accessdate= |language= |quote= (obituary)
*cite news |first= |last=New York Times |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Gottfried Noether, 76, Educator in Statistics |url= |format= |work=New York Times |publisher= |id= |pages= |page=22 |date=August 27 ,1991 |accessdate= |language= |quote= (obituary)
*cite book |last=Noether |first=Gottfried E. |authorlink= |coauthors=Marilynn Dueker |others= |title=Introduction to Statistics: The Nonparametric Way |year=1990 |publisher=Springer |location= |id=ISBN 0387972846
*cite journal |quotes= |last=Noether |first=Gottfried E. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1985 |month=September |title=Fritz Noether (1884–194?) |journal=Integral Equations and Operator Theory |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=573–576 |id= |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/l3r353315g73262r/ |accessdate= |doi=10.1007/BF01201702
*cite journal |quotes= |last=Parastaev |first=Andrei |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1990 |month=March |title=Letter to the editor |journal=Integral Equations and Operator Theory |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=303–305 |id= |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/h73p2j2422254588/ |accessdate= |doi=10.1007/BF01193762External links
* [http://www.amstat.org/awards/index.cfm?fuseaction=noether About the "Gottfried E. Noether Awards", with photograph.]
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