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Peter E. Ney (born July 6, 1930 in Brno)[1] is an American mathematician who works on stochastic processes such as branching processes.

Peter Ney studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1952. He received his doctorate there in 1960 under José Moyal (Some Contributions to the Theory of Cascades).[2] From 1958 to 1960 he was an instructor at Cornell University and was an assistant professor there from 1960 to 1963. In 1963/64 he was visiting assistant professor of statistics at Stanford University and in 1964/65 associate professor at Cornell University (for industrial engineering). In 1965 he became an associate professor and in 1969 a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he headed the mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.

Ney is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Between 1971 and 1972, he was a Guggenheim Fellow and visiting professor at Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 1991, he received a Humboldt Research Prize and in 1984 he was a Fulbright Scholar. From 1988, Ney was the editor of the journal Annals of Probability.