Ester Samuel-Cahn

Ester Samuel-Cahn (; May 16, 1933 – November 20, 2015) was an Israeli statistician and educator. She was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Biography Samuel-Cahn was born in Oslo, Norway. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, in 1942, her father, a rabbi, was warned that he would be arrested by the Germans. He refused to leave in order to try to support his community. In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Samuel-Cahn's family found out that her father had been killed in Auschwitz.

Samuel-Cahn received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1961. In 1989, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was also a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1989, and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

In 2004, Samuel-Cahn won the Israel Prize for her work in statistics. In 2012, she spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Martyrs' Forest in Jerusalem Hills, commemorating Norwegian Jews murdered in the Holocaust and remembering those who helped hide and protect Jews in Norway.

She died in November 2015.

Selected publications