Willem van Zwet#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 825 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Willem van Zwet passed away July 2, 2020.
Positions Held
- 1992 - 1999 Director of the Thomas Stieltjes Research Institute
- 1965 Professor of statistics at the University of Leiden
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical statistics and probability
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Van Dantzig Award, Netherlands Statistical Society
- 1971 Elected member International Statistical Institute
- 1972 Fellow Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1978 Honorary Fellow Royal Statistical Society
- 1979 Elected member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 1986 Bernoulli Medal, Tasjkent
- 1988 Peace Medal, Charles University, Prague
- 1988 Fellow American Statistical Association
- 1989 Médaille de la Ville de Paris
- 1990 Elected member Academia Europaea
- 1993 Adolphe Quételet Medal, International Statistical Institute
- 1995 Certificate of Appreciation, American Statistical Association
- 1996 Knight in the Order of the Netherlands' Lion
- 1996 AKZO-Nobel Award, Netherlands
- 1997 Honorary Doctor, Charles University, Prague
- 1999 Honorary member International Statistical Institute
- 2000 Honorary member Netherlands Statistical Society
- 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis
