Marvin A. Schneiderman was born on December 25, 1918, in Brooklyn,
New York. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics and statistics from the City
College of New York in 1939, an M.S. degree in statistics from American
University in 1953 and a Ph.D. in statistics from American University in 1961.
Additional graduate training and research was done at Ohio State University,
Harvard Graduate School of Business and the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also an
elected member of the International Statistical Institute, an elected Fellow of
the Royal Statistical Society and a Founding Member of the American Society of
Preventive Oncology. He has served as President of the Washington Statistical
Society, as Chairman of the Committee on Presidents of Statistical Societies,
as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association
and as a Council member of the International Biometric Society. He has been an
editor on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including
Cancer Research, Statistics in Medicine, Blood, Journal of the National
Cancer Institute and the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. He was at
the National Cancer Institute from 1948 through 1980. He began as a consulting
statistician, then was appointed Head of the Controlled Trials Group for Cancer
Chemotherapy and later became Associate Director for Field Studies and
Statistics. His last appointment at NIH was as NCI Associate Director for
Science Policy. He was awarded two of the highest honors accorded civilian
employees at the NIH, the Distinguished Service Award and the Superior Service
Award. After leaving the National Institutes of Health, he spent a short time
with a private consulting firm with strong environmental interests. He then
served as a fellow at the Environmental Law Institute before joining the
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental
Studies and Toxicology. He officially retired in 1995. Marvin Schneiderman
passed away on April 1, 1997.