Eugen William Feller was a famous chemist and created Elsa fluid named after his mother.
13 Facts About William Feller
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William Feller held a docent position at the University of Kiel beginning in 1928.
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William Feller reported that the mathematician Torsten Carleman would offer his opinion that Jews and foreigners should be executed.
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William Feller moved to Cornell University in 1945 and to Princeton University in 1950.
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William Feller remained there until his death on January 14,1970.
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The works of William Feller are contained in 104 papers and two books on a variety of topics such as mathematical analysis, theory of measurement, functional analysis, geometry, and differential equations in addition to his work in mathematical statistics and probability.
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William Feller was one of the greatest probabilists of the twentieth century.
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William Feller is remembered for his championing of probability theory as a branch of mathematical analysis in Sweden and the United States.
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William Feller made fundamental contributions to renewal theory, Tauberian theorems, random walks, diffusion processes, and the law of the iterated logarithm.
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William Feller was among those early editors who launched the journal Mathematical Reviews.
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In 1949, William Feller was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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William Feller was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958, the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1960, and the American Philosophical Society in 1966.
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William Feller was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.