- Born 27 January 1904, Duluth MN
- Died 30 December 1965, Contra Costa County CA
- AB University of Minnesota 1924
- MS University of Minnesota 1925
- MA University of Minnesota 1933
- PhD June 1948, University of California at Berkeley
- Adviser: Jerzy Neyman
- Dissertation: Distributions which lead to linear regressions
- Primary employer: University of California at Berkeley