Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. earned his bachelors degree in chemical engineering at Yale University and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia. He taught mathematics and philosophy at Wesleyan, Rockefeller, and Wayne State universities and at the University of Denver.He was Burbank Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Rochester. His major works include Probability Theory, Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief, and The Logical Foundations of Statistical Inference. Kyburg was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Nicholas Murray Medal from Columbia University.