Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Besserabia in Imperial Russia. He graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi gubernial gymnasium for boys in 1909 under the name Yuri Cheslavovich Neyman. He began studies at Kharkov University in 1912, where he was taught by Russian probabilist Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. In 1921 he returned to Poland in a program of repatriation of POWs after the Polish-Soviet War. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Univerisity of Warsaw in 1924. He spent a couple of years in London and Paris on a fellowship to study statistics with Karl Pearson and Emil Borel. After his return to Poland he established the Biometric Laboratory at the Nencki Institute in Warsaw. He published many books dealing with experiments and statistics, and devised the way which the FDA tests medicines today. In 1938 he moved to Berkeley, where he taught as professor at U.C. Berkeley for the rest of his life. In 1966 he was awarded the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society and three years later the (American) Medal of Science.
From the description of Constance Reid research materials on Jerzy Neyman, 1978-1998 (bulk 1978-1981). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 456117462
