A. W. F. Edwards

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A. W. F. Edwards
FRS
Edwards at the Royal Society admissions day in 2015
Born
Anthony William Fairbank Edwards

(1935-10-04) 4 October 1935 (age 88)[2]
London,[2] England
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Parent
RelativesJohn H. Edwards (brother)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (2015)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, genetics
Institutions
Doctoral studentsElizabeth A. Thompson
Websiteroyalsociety.org/people/anthony-edwards-11379/

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards,

Gonville & Caius College. When the window was removed in 2020, he vigorously opposed the move.[4]

Career and research

Edwards–Venn diagram

Edwards is a Life Fellow of

unmanipulated,[7] and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as Venn diagrams.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

After one

postdoctoral research year he was invited by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza to the University of Pavia, where, in 1961–1964, they initiated the statistical approach to the construction of evolutionary trees from genetical data, using the first modern computers. A year at Stanford University was followed by three years as a senior lecturer in Statistics at the University of Aberdeen supervised by D. J. Finney and then two years as a Bye-Fellow in Science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, during which he wrote his book Likelihood.[1]

The remainder of Edwards's career has been spent at Cambridge, ultimately as Professor of Biometry, during which he has published widely, including books on Venn diagrams, mathematical genetics, and

Lewontin's fallacy.[14][15]

Works

Books

Anthology

(Contains: selected papers, including all the papers below; short commentaries by expert biologists, historians, and philosophers; interview with Edwards; appendices; a full list of publications up to 2016.)

Papers

Awards and honours

Edwards was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[1]

Personal life

His elder brother John H. Edwards (1928–2007) was also a geneticist and also an FRS; their father, Harold C. Edwards, was a surgeon. He was awarded the Telesio-Galilei Academy Award in 2011 for Biology.

Edwards is involved in gliding, particularly within the Cambridge University Gliding Club and has written on the subject in Sailplane and Gliding magazine as "The Armchair Pilot".

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Professor Anthony (A.W.F.) Edwards FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b "Edwards, Prof. Anthony William Fairbank". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ISBN 9781107111721
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  4. ^ Edwards, A.W.F (March 2021). "Cancelled by his college". The Critic.
  5. ^ "Professor Anthony Edwards". Gonville & Caius College. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  6. ^ A list of publications up to 2009
  7. S2CID 42928841
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  8. ^ "A Realised Path: The Cambridge Statistical Laboratory upto (sic) 1993 (revised 2002)". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2006.
  9. ^ "Cambridge University Library photograph of Edwards as Chairman of the Library Syndicate making a presentation to the President of Israel". Archived from the original on 20 September 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2006.
  10. ^ Edwards inspired the window in the Hall of Caius College, celebrating Venn and Fisher, former fellows and heroes of Edwards
  11. ^ A collection of R. A. Fisher quotations compiled by A.W.F. Edwards
  12. ^ Kiernan, Jim. "Review of Cogwheels of the Mind". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  13. ISBN 0-87893-177-5
  14. PMID 12879450
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  15. ISBN 9781107111721
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