Albert Hosmer Bowker (September 8, 1919 – January 20, 2008) was an American statistician and university administrator.
Born in Massachusetts, he began his career at Stanford University in the late 1940s where he worked until the early 1950s.
During this period, in 1964, he married his second wife, Rosedith Sitgreaves,[2] a notable statistician who had gone through the graduate program in statistics at Columbia University with Bowker and was at the time a professor at Columbia.
[3] He went on to fserve as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1971 to 1980,[4] followed by a stint as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education in the Carter administration.
[5] Afterward, he became Dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland.