Robert R. Sokal

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Sokal (born January 13, 1926, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-American biostatistician and anthropologist. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of Stony Brook, New York, Sokal is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has promoted the use of statistics in biology and co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with P. H. A. Sneath. Robert Reuben Sokal escaped with his family to China when the Nazis seized power in Austria. He earned his bachelor degree at St. John's College in Shanghai and from there moved with his wife Julie to the University of Chicago, where he also worked as a librarian to complement his scholarship. Under the influence of Sewall Wright, who supervised his dissertation work, Sokal developed an interest for statistics and quantitative biology.