JOHNSON, Norman L. 1917-

PERSONAL: Born January 9, 1917, in Ilford, Essex, England; U.S. citizen; son of Joseph and May Daisy (a homemaker; maiden name, Lloyd) Johnson; married Regina Cecylia Elandt (a university professor), January 4, 1964. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of London, B.Sc. (mathematics), 1936, B.Sc. (statistics), 1937, M.Sc., 1938, Ph.D., 1948, D.Sc., 1963. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Home—206 Short St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516-2138. Office—c/o Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3260; fax: 919-962-1279. E-mail—janice@ email.unc.edu.

CAREER: University of London, London, England, assistant lecturer, 1938-39, 1945-46, lecturer, 1946-59, reader in statistics, 1959-62; Ordnance Board, London, England, experimental officer, 1939-45; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, visiting associate professor, 1952-53, professor of statistics, 1962-79, distinguished professor, 1979-82, professor emeritus, 1982—. Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University), visiting professor, 1960-61; University of New South Wales, visiting professor, 1969. International Standards Organization, member of statistics committee, 1978-81; Road Research Laboratory, vacation consultant, 1956-58.

MEMBER: International Statistical Institute, American Statistical Association (fellow), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (fellow), American Society for Quality Control (senior member), Royal Statistical Society (fellow), Institute of Actuaries (London, England; fellow).

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow, London Institute of Actuaries; Shared Jacob Wolfowitz Prize, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 1982; Shewhart Medal, American Society for Quality Control, 1985; Wilks Memorial Medal and Award, American Statistical Association, 1993.

WRITINGS:

(With H. Tetley) Statistics: An Intermediate Textbook, two volumes, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1949-50, 2nd edition, Volume 1, 1962.

Statistical Exercises: Analysis of Variance and Associated Techniques, Department of Statistics, University College, University of London (London, England), 1958, Part II: Solutions, 1962.

(Editor) V. S. Pugachev, Theory of Random Functions, translation by O. M. Blunn, Pergamon Press (Oxford, England), 1965.

(Coeditor) Andrew B. Vistelius, Structural Diagrams, translation by R. Baker, Pergamon Press (London, England), 1966.

(With W. P. Elderton) Systems of Frequency Curves, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1969.

(Editor, with Harry Smith, Jr.) New Developments in Survey Sampling, Wiley (New York, NY), 1969.

(With Samuel Kotz) Distributions in Statistics: Discrete Distributions, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1969.

(With Samuel Kotz) Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Univariate Distributions, Parts I-II, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1970.

(With Samuel Kotz) Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Wiley (New York, NY), 1972.

(With Samuel Kotz) Urn Models and Their Applications, Wiley (New York, NY), 1977.

(With Regina C. Elandt-Johnson) Survival Models and Data Analysis, Wiley (New York, NY), 1980, reprinted, 1999.

(Editor-in-chief, with Samuel Kotz and C. B. Read) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, nine volumes and supplement, Wiley (New York, NY), 1980-89.

(With Samuel Kotz and X. Z. Wu) Inspection Errors for Attributes in Quality Control, Chapman & Hall (London, England), 1991.

(With Samuel Kotz and A. W. Kemp) Univariate Discrete Distributions, Wiley (New York, NY), 1993.

(Editor, with Samuel Kotz and A. W. Kemp) Breakthroughs in Statistics, Springer (New York, NY), Volume I: Theory, 1992, Volume II: Applications, 1992, Volume III, 1997.

(With Samuel Kotz) Process Capability Indices, Chapman & Hall (London, England), 1993.

(With Samuel Kotz and N. Balakrishnan) Continuous Univariate Distributions, Wiley (New York, NY), Volume I, 1994, Volume II, 1995.

(With Samuel Kotz and N. Balakrishnan) Discrete Multivariate Distributions, Wiley (New York, NY), 1997.

(Editor, with Samuel Kotz) Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences, from the Seventeeth Century to the Present, Wiley (New York, NY), 1997.

(Editor, with N. Balakrishnan) Festschrift for Samuel Kotz, Wiley (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Samuel Kotz and N. Balakrishnan) Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Multivariate Distributions, two volumes, Wiley (New York, NY), 2000-2002.

Contributor to books. Contributor of nearly 200 articles to professional journals. Journal of the American Statistical Association, associate editor, 1970-72, theory and methods editor, 1972-75; associate editor, Biometrika, 1958-65, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1959-62, and Metron, 1982—; member of editorial panel, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1956-63, Communications in Statistics, 1971-81, and Sequential Analysis, 1981-97.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on measures of dependence and on survival models.

SIDELIGHTS: Norman L. Johnson told CA: "My motivation for writing is to organize my own understanding of a topic and/or react to coauthors' ideas. In many cases, a coauthor has suggested a particular topic. Also, I feel sometimes that a book on a certain topic can be of reasonably substantial assistance to a fairly large group of people. Almost always, I write with a coauthor. We sketch a general plan, then individual chapters, and assign draft authorship between (or among) us. Then there is a sequence of mutual discussions and adjustments.

"I do not think my writings have changed greatly. I have tried (with mixed success) to write more succinctly and more clearly."