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PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth: 15 July 1924
Married, 1 daughter, 3 sons.
Work Address: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford,
1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK
Work Fax: 01865 272595
ACADEMIC RECORD
Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham
St John's College, Cambridge (MA)
University of Leeds (PhD, 1949)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1944-46 Royal Aircraft Establishment
1946-50 Wool Industries Research Association of Science and Technology
1950-55 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Cambridge
1955-56 Visiting research associate and Visiting Research Professor, Universities of Princeton, North Carolina and California at Berkeley
1956-61 Reader in Statistics, Birkbeck College London
1961-65 Professor of Statistics, Birkbeck College London
1965 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories
1966-88 Professor of Statistics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1969-73 Head of Department of Mathematics, Imperial College
1983-88 SERC Senior Research Fellow
1988-94 Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford
1994-present Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College
ACADEMIC PRIZES
1961 Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society
1973 Guy Medal in Gold, Royal Statistical Society
1984 Weldon Memorial Prize, University of Oxford
1990 Kettering Prize and Gold Medal for Cancer Research
1992 Max Planck Forschungspreise
1998 Marvin Zelen leadership Award, Harvard University
ACADEMIC HONOURS
1973 Fellow of the Royal Society
1973 Guy Medal in Gold, Royal Statistical Society
1982 Honorary DSc, University of Reading
1982 Honorary DSc, University of Bradford
1985 Knighted
1986 Honorary DSc, University of Helsinki
1987 Honorary DSc, Heriot-Watt University
1988 Honorary DSc, Limburgs University
1990 Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries
1990 Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
1990 Honorary DSc, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1991 Honorary D.Maths, Waterloo University, Ontario
1992 Honorary DSc, University of Neuchatel
1993 Honorary Doctorate in Statistics and Demography, University of Padua
1993 Honorary DSc, University of Minnesota
1994 Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College
1994 Honorary D.Sc., University of Dundee Abertay
1994 Honorary D.Sc., University of Toronto
1995 Honorary D.Sc., Technical University of Crete
1998 Honorary Doctorate, Athens University of Economics and Business
1998 Honorary Doctorate, University of Bordeaux 2
1998 Honorary Doctorate, Athens University of Economics
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University
1999 Honorary D.Sc., Elche University
2000 Honorary D.Sc., Federal University of R.de Janiero
2001 Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College London
2003 Honorary Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science
2005 Honorary D.Sc. University of Leeds
2006 Honorary D.Sc. University of Southampton
2007 Honorary D.Sc. University of Gothenburg
2009 Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
2010 Copley Medal, Royal Society
2011 Honorary D.Sc. University of Glasgow
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
1955-56 Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
1974 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1979-81 President, Bernoulli Society
1980-82 President, Royal Statistical Society
1983 Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters
1988 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA
1990 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
1993-1995 President-elect, International Statistical Institute
1994-1996 Member of Council, Royal Society
1995-1997 President, International Statistical Institute
1996 Foreign Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences
1997 Honorary Fellow of British Academy
2000 Honorary Foreign Member, Finnish Statistical Society
2002 Honorary Life Member, International Biometric Society
2005 Honorary Member, Portuguese Statistical Society
EDITORIAL AND REFEREEING SERVICES
1966-91 Editor of Biometrika
1994- Chairman of Trustees, Biometrika
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