Herbert Sichel (1915–1995) was a statistician who made great advances in the areas of both theoretical and applied statistics.
[1] Dr Sichel pioneered the science of geostatistics with Danie Krige in the early 1950s.
He was appointed as professor in Statistics and Operations Research in the Graduate Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand.
He has been recognized as "one of the grand old men of the SA Statistical Association".
[3] The Herbert Sichel medal was established in 1997 and is awarded annually to the best statistics paper published in a South African journal in the previous year.