Weldon Memorial Prize
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The Weldon Memorial Prize, also known as the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, is given yearly by the University of Oxford
. The prize is to be awarded
It is named in honor of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
, former Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University. It was established through the efforts of Francis Galton
and Karl Pearson
. Although intended to be given yearly, it has in the past been given less often.
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. The prize is to be awarded
without regard to nationality or membership of any University to the person who, in the judgement of the electors, has, in the ten years next preceding the date of the award, published the most noteworthy contribution to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology. (Biology shall, for the purposes of this clause, be interpreted as including Zoology, Botany, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, and Medical Science.)
It is named in honor of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon DSc FRS generally called Raphael Weldon, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...
, former Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University. It was established through the efforts of Francis Galton
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
and Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....
. Although intended to be given yearly, it has in the past been given less often.
Recipients
- 1911 David Heron
- 1912 Karl PearsonKarl PearsonKarl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....
- 1914 Charles B. GoringCharles Buckman GoringCharles Buckman Goring was a pioneer in criminology. He was educated at the University of London, receiving his B.Sc. in 1895 and his M.D. in 1903. In 1893, he was awarded the John Stuart Mill Studentship in Philosophy of Mind and Logic, and four years later was elected a Fellow of Uni- versity...
- 1920 J. Arthur Harris
- 1920 Ethel M. EldertonEthel M. EldertonEthel Mary Elderton was a eugenics researcher who worked with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. In 1905 she resigned her teaching post to become Galton's assistant. Subsequently she became Galton Scholar and Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College London....
- 1923 Johannes SchmidtJohannes Schmidt (biologist)Johannes Schmidt was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn...
- 1926 Major GreenwoodMajor GreenwoodMajor Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there...
- 1930 Ronald Aylmer Fisher
- 1932 Geoffrey M. Morant
- 1935 Egon S. PearsonEgon PearsonEgon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS was the only son of Karl Pearson, and like his father, a leading British statistician....
- 1938 J. B. S. HaldaneJ. B. S. HaldaneJohn Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...
- 1941 Julia BellJulia BellJulia Bell was a pioneering English human geneticist. She attended Girton College in Cambridge and took the Mathematical Tripos exam in 1901. But because women could not officially receive degrees from Oxford or Cambridge, she was awarded a master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin for her work...
- 1944 Prasanta Chandra MahalanobisPrasanta Chandra MahalanobisPrasanta Chandra Mahalanobis FRS was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India...
- 1947 Sewall WrightSewall WrightSewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
- 1950 Lionel S. Penrose
- 1953 Frank YatesFrank YatesFrank Yates FRS was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics.He was born in Manchester. Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gaining a scholarship to Clifton...
- 1956 David J. FinneyD. J. FinneyDavid John Finney CBE is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society...
- 1959 E. B. Ford
- 1962 Kenneth MatherKenneth MatherSir Kenneth Mather FRS was a British geneticist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964....
- 1965 Motoo KimuraMotoo Kimurawas a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of...
- 1969 I. Michael LernerI. Michael LernerIsador Michael Lerner was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Born in Harbin, Manchuria, he received his Ph.D. in genetics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1936...
- 1971 Maurice S. BartlettM. S. BartlettMaurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns...
- 1974 David KendallDavid George KendallDavid George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...
- 1978 Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- 1980 Robert MayRobert May, Baron May of OxfordRobert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...
- 1983 David R. CoxDavid Cox (statistician)Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
- 1986 Tomoko OhtaTomoko Ohtais a Japanese scientist working on molecular evolution. In 1956, she graduated from the University of Tokyo. After working on the neutral theory of evolution with her mentor, Motoo Kimura, she became convinced of the importance of the mutations that were nearly neutral. She developed the slightly...
- 1989 Roy M. Anderson
- 1992 George OsterGeorge OsterGeorge Oster is an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley.He graduated from Columbia University, with a Ph.D., in Nuclear Engineering....
- 1995 Michael P. Hassell
- 1996 Martin NowakMartin NowakMartin A. Nowak is Professor of Biology and Mathematics and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.-Career:Martin Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna, and earned his Ph. D. in 1989, working with Peter Schuster on quasi-species...
- 1998 John Maynard SmithJohn Maynard SmithJohn Maynard Smith,His surname was Maynard Smith, not Smith, nor was it hyphenated. F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S....
- 2001 Elizabeth Thompson
- 2002 Warren EwensWarren EwensWarren Ewens FRS, FAA is an Australian-born professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He concentrates his research on the mathematical, statistical and theoretical aspects of population genetics. Ewens has worked in human population genetics, computational biology, and evolutionary...
- 2003 Richard PetoRichard PetoSir Richard Peto FRS is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University....
- 2004 David Sankoff
- 2005 Geoffrey WestGeoffrey WestGeoffrey Brian West is a British theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities...
- 2006 Nancy KopellNancy KopellNancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.She grew up in the Bronx....
- 2007 Brian CharlesworthBrian CharlesworthProfessor Brian Charlesworth FRS is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of Biology Letters....
- 2008 Peter DonnellyPeter DonnellyPeter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory...
- 2009 David SpiegelhalterDavid SpiegelhalterDavid John Spiegelhalter OBE, FRS, is a distinguished British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge...
- 2010 Russell S. LandeRussell LandeRussell Lande is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.-Education and career:...
- 2011 David HausslerDavid HausslerDavid Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences on...