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August 24, 2006
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Pioneering statistician
Frederick Mosteller, founder of Harvard's Statistics Department, died on July 23 at age 89. Public Health Dean Barry Bloom credited Mosteller with transforming the School's Department of Biostatistics into one of the top such departments in the world, calling Mosteller 'a giant in his field.' (File photo Jane Reed/Harvard News Office)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Founder of Harvard's Statistics Department, Frederick Mosteller, dies at 89
Work influential in public health, education
Charles W. Dunn dies at 90
Longtime Celtic department chairman and Quincy House master remembered
Lecturer, administrator Delba Winthrop Mansfield dies at 60
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