Sir David Cox#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 142 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Sir David Cox passed away January 18, 2022.
Positions Held
- Since 1994 Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College
- 1988 - 1994 Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford
- 1983 - 1988 SERC Senior Research Fellow
- 1969 - 1973 Head of Department of Mathematics, Imperial College
- 1966 - 1988 Professor of Statistics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
- 1965 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories
- 1961 - 1965 Professor of Statistics, Birkbeck College London
- 1956 - 1961 Reader in Statistics, Birkbeck College London
- 1955 - 1956 Visiting research associate and Visiting Research Professor, Universities of Princeton, North Carolina and California at Berkeley
- 1950 - 1955 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 1946 - 1950 Wool Industries Research Association of Science and Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Statistical theory
- Statistical methods
- Statistics
- Statistical applications
Honours and Awards
- 1961 Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society
- 1973 Guy Medal in Gold, Royal Statistical Society
- 1984 Weldon Memorial Prize, University of Oxford
- 1985 Knighted
- 1990 Kettering Prize and Gold Medal for Cancer Research
- 1992 Max Planck Forschungspreise
- 1998 Marvin Zelen leadership Award, Harvard University
- 2010 Copley Medal, Royal Society
