
{"id":18944,"date":"2011-06-15T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2011-06-15T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T22:56:14","slug":"obituary-regina-elandt-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/15\/obituary-regina-elandt-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Regina Elandt-Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\nProf. Regina Elandt-Johnson died on May 31, 2011 in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 92. She was preceded in death by her husband, distinguished Prof. Norman Lloyd Johnson (Nov. 18, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>She was born in Nowogrod, Poland on Nov. 22, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Elandt-Johnson was a distinguished professor with many accomplishments in the field of statistics, statistical methodology and biostatistics. Prof. Regina Elandt-Johnson, a World War II survivor, studied mathematics at Vilnius University. During World War II, she was active in AK-Polish underground resistance against German and Russian aggressors.<\/p>\n<p>She received her master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in mathematics from the University of Poznan, Poland in 1946 and Ph.D. in mathematics and statistics from the Agricultural University, Poznan, Poland in 1955.<br \/>\nShe was a professor in the department of agricultural experimentation in the Agricultural University (1946-63) and the department of genetics in the Polish Academy of Science, Poznan (1962-64).<\/p>\n<p>She became head of the mathematical statistics department in the Agricultural University in 1963-64.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, she moved to Chapel Hill and was offered a professor position in the department of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at UNC. She retired in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, she was honored for all her accomplishments and received the distinguished recognition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doctoris Honoris Causa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Agricultural University.<\/p>\n<p>She authored many books and countless scientific publications in the fields of mathematical and applied statistics, survivorship analysis and statistical methods in epidemiology.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her family, Marek, Margaret, Antoni and Filip Maciolowski in Chapel Hill and nieces and nephews in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Norman L. Johnson &#038; Regina C. Elandt-Johnson Foundation, 206 Short St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18945,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions\/18945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}