In Memorium: Peter William Meredith John, 1923 - 2015
Peter W. M. John died peacefully at his home in Austin, Texas on
January
22, 2015. In accord with his wishes, there was no memorial service.
Here are some items about him which might be of interest.
(If you wish to contribute comments or see those others have
contributed, you may do so here.)
Obituaries
Austin American Statesman Obituary ( Sunday February 22, 2015)
Amstat
News (July, 2015, online)
Institute
of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin (July 14, 2015, online)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in
Society), Volume 178, Issue 4, pages 1093–1096, October 2015 First
page
University of Texas Memorial Resolution
Talks given by Peter John
Plenary Presentation at the 2003
Quality and Productivity
Research Conference, May 21-23, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
(Peter also gave a slight variant of
this talk on the occasion of the celebration of his retirement in
April, 2004)
Honors and Awards
Fellow of the American Statistical Asociation (1976)
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(1977)
Shewell Prize, American Society for Quality Control
(1991)
[for his presentation "Dubious
Observations in 2n Factorial Experiments."]
Don Owen Award, San Antonio Chapter of the American
Statistical Association (1995)
Honoree and keynote speaker, Quality and
Productivity
Reearch Conference, Orlando Fla (1997)
[Title of his address: Fractional
Factorials: Fifty Years from Finney]
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of
Texas at Austin (1999)
Honoree and Keynote Speaker, Quality and
Productivity Research Conference (2003)
[See link above to his address]
Ph.D. Students of Peter John
Chwen-Ming Cathy
Chang 1993
Chiu, Wan-Yi 1997
Chitturi, Pallavi 1998
Xuewei Cui 1996
Veronica Czitrom 1984
Pi-hsaing Huang 1991
Pen-Huang Liau 1991
Leslie Melissa (Lisa) Moore 1985
Bernard Most 1972
David Stark 1981
Julie Wuu 1984
Stephen Yuan 1977
[He also supervised over fifty Master's degrees.]