- Born 15 April 1926, New York NY
- Died 5 December 2018, Rockville MD
- AB Barnard College, Columbia University 1946
- PhD (Statistics) June 1956, University of North Carolina
- Adviser: Wassily Hoeffding
- Dissertation: On a class of non-parametric tests
- Primary employer: National Bureau of Standards/National Institute of Standards and Technology