Johannes H. B. Kemperman, born in 1924, received his Bachelor of
Science in 1945 and Ph.D. in 1950, each in mathematics and physics, from the
University of Amsterdam. From 1948 to 1951 he was a Research Associate at the
Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam. During 1951–1953 he was a Visiting
Professor on a Fulbright grant at Purdue University, and subsequently he joined
the faculty and stayed at Purdue for 10 years, becoming a full Professor in
1959.
¶ In 1961 he went to the University of Rochester, becoming the
Fayerweather Professor of Mathematics in 1970. He stayed at Rochester for 25
years. In 1985 he joined the faculty at Rutgers University as a Professor in
the Statistics Department and also a voting member of the Mathematics
Department. He retired to emeritus status at Rutgers in 1995.
¶ He served in editorial posts at the Annals of Mathematical
Statistics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Aequationes
Mathematicae and Stochastic Processes and Applications. He is a
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association
for the Advancement of Sciences and is a Correspondent of the Royal Dutch
Academy of Sciences (Amsterdam) .
¶ He has produced 23 Ph.D. students, 3 books and over 100 publications
in analysis, number theory, group theory, probability, statistics, functional
equations, mathematical biology and other areas.