David George Kendall
David George Kendall | |
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Born | Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 15 January 1918
Died | 23 October 2007 Cambridge, England | (aged 89)
Awards | Guy Medal (Silver, 1955) (Gold, 1981) Weldon Memorial Prize (1974) Sylvester Medal (1976) Senior Whitehead Prize (1980) De Morgan Medal (1989) Fellow of the Royal Society,[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Probability, statistics, statistical shape analysis |
Institutions | Magdalen College, Oxford Churchill College, Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | M. S. Bartlett[2] |
Doctoral students | Nicholas Bingham Rollo Davidson John Kingman Robin Sibson Bernard Silverman Richard Tweedie David Vere-Jones David Williams Adrian Baddeley |
David George Kendall FRS[1] (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007)[3] was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic life in the University of Oxford (1946–1962) and the University of Cambridge (1962–1985). He worked with M. S. Bartlett during World War II, and visited Princeton University after the war.[4]
Life and career
David George Kendall was born on 15 January 1918 in
He worked on rocketry at the Ministry of Supply's Projectile Development Establishment during the World War II, before moving to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1946.
In 1962 he was appointed the first
Kendall was an expert in
The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1955, followed in 1981 by the Guy Medal in Gold. In 1980 the London Mathematical Society awarded Kendall their Senior Whitehead Prize, and in 1989 their De Morgan Medal.[8] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1964. Kendall also played a key role in founding the
He was married to Diana Fletcher from 1952 until his death. They had two sons and four daughters, including Wilfrid Kendall, professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick, journalist Bridget Kendall MBE, Felicity Kendall Hickman, Judy Kendall, reader and poet at University of Salford, George Kendall, and Harriet Strudwick, the Antipodean sibling.[3]
Selected bibliography
- Kendall, David G. (1960), "Geometric ergodicity and the theory of queues", in ISBN 9780804700214.
References
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- ^ David George Kendall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Obituary in the Times". TimesOnline. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "David George Kendall", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Bibcode:2008arXiv0810.1091G
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- ^ "Honorary Graduates 1989 to present". bath.ac.uk. University of Bath. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ London Mathematical Society, List of Prizewinners, archived from the original on 17 December 2005, retrieved 8 July 2007
- ^ Bernoulli Society, Bernoulli Society website, archived from the original on 28 September 2021, retrieved 1 May 2020