Willem van Zwet
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| Born | 31 March 1934
Leiden, Netherlands
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| Died | 2 July 2020(2020-07-02) (aged 86)
Oegstgeest, Netherlands
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| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
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| Thesis | Convex Transformations of Random Variables[1] (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan Hemelrijk |
| Doctoral students | Sara van de Geer Aad van der Vaart |
Willem Rutger van Zwet (31 March 1934 – 2 July 2020) was a Dutch mathematical statistician.[2] He was a professor at Leiden University between 1968 and 1999.
Van Zwet was born on 31 March 1934 in Leiden.[3] Van Zwet obtained his doctoral degree in 1964 under the supervision of Jan Hemelrijk at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis titled "Convex Transformations of Random Variables".[4] After that, he worked at the Centrum Wiskunde & InformaticainAmsterdam, and became a lector of statistics at Leiden University in 1964 and was named professor in 1968. He retired in 1999.[3]
From 1992 to 1999, van Zwet was the Director of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute of Mathematics. He co-founded Eurandom in 1997, and served as its director until 2000. From 1997 to 1999, he was also the President of the International Statistical Institute.
Van Zwet was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a member of the Academia Europaea since 1990.[5] He received the Humboldt Prize in 2006. He won the Adolphe Quetelet Medal in 1993, and had been a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1978. In 1979, he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6] In 1996, he was made Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and was named Doctoris Honoris causa of Charles University the following year. He died on 2 July 2020 in Oegstgeest.[3]
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