Word: biostatistician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Reed is the nation's top biostatistician (a word he coined himself). Over the years, he has collected statistics on everything from cows to cars, once helped to plot a logistic curve by which scientists can forecast population trends of any city or country in the world. As director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and later as vice president, Reed also proved himself a topnotch administrator. Johns Hopkins now has until 1956 to finish its $5,000,000 building program, and to run along under a man it knows and respects. By then Reed will...