A Conversation with H. A. David

Herbert Aron David was born in Berlin, Germany, on December 19, 1925. He earned a Ph.D. (1953) in statistics from University College London. Since then he has been a Research Officer at CSIRO, Sydney (1953–1955), Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Melbourne University (1955–1957), Professor of Statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1957–1964), Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina (1964–1972), Director and Head, …