Morton Kramer was born on March 21, 1914, in Baltimore, Maryland. He
received an A.B. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1934 and a D.Sc. in
1939. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an Honorary
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an elected member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient
of the Health-For-All Medal of the World Health Organization and the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University. During his tenure at
NIH from 1949 through 1975, he served as Chief of the Biometrics Branch of the
National Institute of Mental Health. He was awarded both the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare Superior Service and Distinguished Service
awards. Since leaving NIH, he was Professor of Biostatistics at the School of
Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and in 1984 became
Professor Emeritus.