Honorary Degree Recipients

Honorary Degrees awarded by the Department of Statistics
 

Terrence Speed

Terrence Speed

Professor, Head of the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne, Australia, and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Science
Five Hundred Nineteenth Convocation
June 14, 2014


David Donoho

David Donoho

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Statistics

Doctor of Science
Five Hundredth Convocation
October 9, 2009


Grace Wahba

Grace Wahba

I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and Professor of Computer Sciences (by courtesy), University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Nineth Convocation
June 8, 2007


Persi Diaconis

Persi Diaconis

The Mary V. Sunseri Professor and Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Seventy Third Convocation
June 13, 2003


David Aldous

David Aldous

Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Sixty Second Convocation
November 2, 2000


Bradley Efron

Bradley Efron

Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Thirty-ninth Convocation
June 9, 1995


Ulf Grenander

Ulf Grenander

L. Herbert Ballou University Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Thirty-fifth Convocation
June 10, 1994


Charles Stein

Charles Stein

Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Stanford University

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Twenty-sixth Convocation
June 12, 1992


Erich L. Lehmann

Erich L. Lehmann

Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Twenty-third Convocation
October 3, 1991


Frederick Mosteller

Frederick Mosteller

Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University

Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Forty-sixth Convocation
October 26, 1973


John Wilder Tukey

John Wilder Tukey

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Princeton University, and Bell Telephone Laboratories

Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Twenty-eighth Convocation
June 13, 1969


Maurice Stevenson

Maurice Stevenson Bartlett

Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, University College, London, England

Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Fourteenth Convocation
June 10, 1966


Jerzy Neyman

Jerzy Neyman

Director of the Statistical Laboratory, and Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Science
Two Hundred Eighty-second Convocation
June 12, 1959


Harold Hotelling

Harold Hotelling

Professor of Statistics, University of North Carolina

Doctor of Laws
Two Hundred Sixty-seventh Convocation
November 11, 1955


Sir Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge, England

Doctor of Science
Two Hundred Fifty-first Convocation
June 13, 1952