Albert H. Bowker
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| Albert Hosmer Bowker | |
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| Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley |
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| In office 1971–1980 |
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| Preceded by | Robert W. Heyns |
| Succeeded by | Ira Michael Heyman |
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| Born | September 8, 1919 Winchendon, Massachusetts |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Portola Valley, California |
Albert Hosmer Bowker (September 8, 1919 – January 20, 2008) was an American educator. Born in Massachusetts, he worked at Stanford University in the late 1940s to early 1950s before coming to serve as Chancellor of the City University of New York from 1963 to 1971. He served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1971 to 1980[1] until serving as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education in the Carter administration.[2] After 1 year, he went to the University of Maryland to serve as Dean of the School of Public Affairs. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.
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- 1919 births
- 2008 deaths
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty
- University of Maryland people
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- People from Winchendon, Massachusetts
- Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley
- Chancellors of City University of New York
