NEYMAN J. (1894–1981). Biographical note
Journal: Statistics in Transition New Series
Year: 2013

Jerzy Spawa-Neyman was born on 16 April 1894, into a noble family, in the town of Bendery on the river Dniester.He disliked the prefix Spawa, and except for some early works he published under the name Neyman.Out of respect for that decision, we use only the shortened form of his surname here.Klonecki (1995) reports that, according to his sources, the Neyman family came to Poland in the 17th century from German or Dutch lands. 1 Neyman was the grandson of a participant in the uprising of 1863.Fo