Norman Lloyd Johnson

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Norman Lloyd Johnson (9 January 1917, Ilford, Essex, England – 18 November 2004, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probability theory.

Education

Johnson attended Ilford County High School, and went on to University College London, where he obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics 1936 and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in statistics in 1937 and 1938.

Career

On qualification in 1938, Johnson was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at UCL. During

He wrote, together with Samuel Kotz, a standard reference series, Distributions in Statistics. This series has been described as of "virtually Biblical authority", a comment that he (a devout Christian) firmly rejected. He was editor-in-chief of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, widely regarded as one of the most important reference works in statistical methodology. He also wrote several textbooks and about 180 papers. His book "Survival Models" was co-authored with his wife Regina Elandt Johnson, herself a professor of biostatistics.

Honours

He was honoured in numerous ways, including the

References

• Campbell B. Read (2004) A Conversation with Norman L. Johnson, Statistical Science, 19, 544–560. Project Euclid

Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson, ed. (1997). Breakthroughs in statistics, Volume III. Springer Series in Statistics: Perspectives in Statistics. New York: Springer-Verlag.

• Norman L. Johnson
• Norman Lloyd Johnson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project