Chris Heyde

Christopher Charles Heyde (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.

Chris Heyde AM
Born	20 April 1939 (1939-04-20) Sydney, Australia
Died	6 March 2008 (2008-03-07) (aged 68) Canberra, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	The Australian National University
Scientific career
Fields	Probability theory, Stochastic processes, Statistics
Institutions	Columbia University, University of Melbourne, CSIRO, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Michigan State University, The Australian National University, Canberra.
Doctoral advisor	Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran

Heyde was a professor at Columbia University, the University of Melbourne, CSIRO, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Michigan State University, and The Australian National University, Canberra.^[1][2][3][4]

In 2008, Heyde died of metastatic melanoma.

Honours

• 1972 – Member of the International Statistical Institute
• 1973 – Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• 1977 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)^[5]
• 1981 – Honorary Life Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI)^[6]
• 1988 – Awarded the Statistical Society of Australia's Pitman Medal^[6] and served as President of the Society
• 1994 – Shared the Australian Academy of Science's Hannan Medal with Peter Hall.
• 1995 – Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.^[7]
• 1998 – D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Sydney
• 2003 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)^[8]
• 2003 – Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these disciplines".^[9]

Offices held

• Vice President of the International Statistical Institute
• President of the Bernoulli Society
• President of the Statistical Society of Australia (1979–1981)
• Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society
• Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics
• Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1983–1989)
• Editor-in-chief of Journal of Applied Probability (1990–2008)
• Editor-in-chief of Advances in Applied Probability (1990–2008).

References

1. Joe Gani and Eugene Seneta, Obituary: Christopher Charles Heyde AM, DSc, FAA, FASSA Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Applied Probability, vol 45, pp.587–592 (2008)
2. Paul Glasserman and Steven Kou, "A conversation with Chris Heyde" Archived 3 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Statistical Science, 2006, vol 21, No. 2, pp 286–298.
3. CAP Archived 11 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University
4. Christopher C. Heyde 1939 – 2008 Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
5. "Chris Heyde". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
6. Awards Archived 16 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Statistical Society of Australia Inc.
7. Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Archived 28 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
8. "Academy Fellow – Professor Chris Heyde AM, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
9. "Heyde, Christopher Charles, AM". It's an Honour. Government of Australia. 26 January 2003. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2008.

External links

• Chris Heyde at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Memoir full transcription from Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.20, no.1, 2009