Herbert Solomon (March 13, 1919 – September 20, 2004) was an American statistician.
Born in Harlem to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and later earned a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1941.
[1] His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he was a member of the Statistical Research Group at Columbia.
After serving in the Office of Naval Research from 1948 to 1952, he returned to Columbia as a professor, and taught there from 1952 to 1959.
While on sabbatical, he returned to Stanford, where he would teach for the remainder of his life.