Jane Worcester
Died8 October 1989
Alma materSmith College, Harvard University
AwardsFellow of the American Statistical Association
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics, Epidemiology
InstitutionsHarvard School of Public Health
ThesisThe Epidemiology of Streptococcal and Non-Streptococcal Respiratory Disease (1947)
Doctoral advisorEdwin B. Wilson

Jane Worcester (died 8 October 1989)[1] was a biostatistician and epidemiologist who became the second tenured female professor, after Martha May Eliot, and the first female chair of biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health.[2][3]

Worcester graduated from Smith College in 1931, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and was hired by Harvard biostatistician Edwin B. Wilson to become a human computer at Harvard.[2][4] They continued to work together on theoretical research in biostatistics until Wilson retired as chair of the department in 1945,[2] eventually publishing 27 papers together.[1] Worcester completed a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Harvard under Wilson's supervision in 1947; her dissertation was The Epidemiology of Streptococcal and Non-Streptococcal Respiratory Disease.[5] She joined the Harvard faculty, was granted tenure in 1962,[3] and served as chair from 1973 to 1977, when she retired.[1][2][6]

She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1960.[7] In 1968, Smith College awarded her an honorary doctorate.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wehrwein, Peter (12 July 2013), "Jane Worcester", Harvard Public Health Review, 75th Anniversary Issue, Vol. I, 1954-1971, pp. 89–90
  2. 1 2 3 4 Laird, Nan; Zelen, Marvin (2012), "Harvard University Department of Biostatistics", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, pp. 77–90, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_7, ISBN 9781461436492. See especially pp. 84–85.
  3. 1 2 The First Tenured Women Professors at Harvard University (PDF), Harvard University, retrieved 2017-11-07
  4. 1 2 Honorary Degrees, Smith College, retrieved 2017-11-07
  5. ↑ Dissertations 1947–2018, Harvard Department of Biostatistics
  6. ↑ The Department of Biostatistics: A Timeline, Harvard School of Public Health, 2015-03-03, retrieved 2017-11-07
  7. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-07
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