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Herbert Solomon (March 13, 1919 – September 20, 2004) was an American statistician. He was a professor emeritus of statistics at Stanford University and co-founder of the university's statistics department.
Founded in 1910 by Arthur, Herbert, and Percy Salomon and a clerk, Ben Levy. The founding Salomon Brothers are descendants of Haym Salomon, primary financier of the American Revolutionary War, Consul to France, and childhood friend to Robert Morris, Founding Father and Superintendent of Finance of the United States. [12]
The Statistical Research Group (SRG) was a research group at Columbia University focused on military problems during World War II. Abraham Wald, Allen Wallis, Herbert Solomon, [1] Frederick Mosteller, George Stigler, Leonard Jimmie Savage and Milton Friedman were all part of the group in which 18 researchers participated.
Martha turns down an offer of marriage from her boss at the library, who immediately proposes to her colleague, Erna. During the wedding celebration, Martha is formally introduced to Helmut Salomon, a wealthy civil engineer, who was the man with whom she crossed glances leaving the German embassy.
Salomon was born to a Jewish family [3] in New York City, the son of Percy Salomon who co-founded Salomon Brothers with his brothers, Arthur and Herbert. William joined the firm aged 19 in 1933, soon after the Wall Street crash.
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the president makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS).
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At the invitation of Herbert Solomon, who had been a graduate student with her at Columbia, she moved to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 1955. She ran their statistics branch under Joseph Weyl, a son of mathematician Hermann Weyl and director of mathematical sciences at ONR at that time.