Paul A. Herzberg *61

Paul Herzberg, professor of psychology emeritus at York University, Toronto, died Dec. 2, 2015, at age 79. He was born in Canada in 1936, a year after his refugee parents left Nazi Germany. Herzberg earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Queens University in 1958. He earned a master’s degree in physics in 1961 from Princeton.

Both his parents were acclaimed scientists: his mother, Louise, an astrophysicist, and his father, Gerhard, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Herzberg diverted and earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1967 from the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana.

In 1966, he joined York University and taught statistics in the psychology program. He was known for his teaching and research in statistics, including the development of visual techniques and simulation of statistical phenomena. In 1996, he was honored with the parents association’s universitywide teaching award. He was also named a senior scholar at the university. He retired in 2002.

In retirement, Herzberg wrote a biography of his mother, highlighting her scientific accomplishments and how she met the challenge of family and career, and how she went unnoticed until gaining considerable recognition in her final decade.

Herzberg’s wife, also named Louise, died only weeks before him. A sister, Agnes, survives him.

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