Harry F. Martz was born June 16, 1942 and grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. He
received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (with a minor in physics)
from Frostburg State University in 1964, and earned a Ph.D. in statistics at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1968. He started his
statistics career at Texas Tech University's Department of Industrial
Engineering and Statistics right after graduation. In 1978, he joined the
technical staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New
Mexico after first working as Full Professor in the Department of Industrial
Engineering at Utah State University in the fall of 1977. He has had a prolific
23-year career with the statistics group at LANL; over the course of his
career, Martz has published over 80 research papers in books and refereed
journals, one book (with co-author Ray Waller), and has four patents associated
with his work at LANL. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association
and has received numerous awards, including the Technometrics Frank Wilcoxon
Prize for Best Applications Paper (1996), Los Alamos National Laboratory
Achievement Award (1998), R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine (2003), Council for
Chemical Research Collaboration Success Award (2004), and Los Alamos National
Laboratory's Distinguished Licensing Award (2004). Since retiring as a
Technical Staff member at LANL in 2001, he has worked as a LANL Laboratory
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