A conversation with Johannes H. B. Kemperman

Johannes H. B. Kemperman, born in 1924, received his Bachelor of Science in 1945 and Ph.D. in 1950, each in mathematics and physics, from the Universi ty of Amsterdam. From 1948 to 1951 he was a Research Associate at the Mathe matical Centre in Amsterdam. During 1951-1953 he was a Visiting Professor o n a Fulbright grant at Purdue University, and subsequently he joined the fa culty and stayed at Purdue for 10-years, becoming a full Professor in 1959. In 1961 he went to the University of Rochester, becoming the Fayer-weather Professor of Mathematics in 1970. He stayed at Rochester far 25 years. In 1 985 he joined the faculty at Rutgers University as a Professor in the Stati stics Department and also a voting member of the Mathematics Department. He retired to emeritus status at Rutgers in 1995. He served in editorial posts at the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Anna ls of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Aequationes Mathematicae and Stoch astic Processes and Applications. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathem atical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Scien ces and is a Correspondent of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (Amsterda m). He has produced 23 Ph.D. students, 3 books and over 100 publications in ana lysis, number theory, group theory, probability, statistics, functional equ ations, mathematical biology and other areas.