Margaret P. Martin
Margaret P. Martin | |
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Born | |
Died | May 3, 2012 Roseville, Minnesota | (aged 97)
Occupation | Mathematician |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
Thesis | Some new systems of orthogonal polynomials on algebraic curves (1944) |
Academic advisors | Dunham Jackson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics |
Sub-discipline | Biostatistics |
Institutions | Vanderbilt University, University of Minnesota, Columbia University, Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.D.A. Forest Service |
Margaret Pearl Martin (April 22, 1915 โ May 3, 2012) was an American statistician, associated with the University of Minnesota.[1] Most of her statistical research was performed as a consultant on public health studies, in connection with her work teaching statistics in medical schools.[2]
Education and career
Martin was born in
She became an instructor of biostatistics at Columbia University[4] for the rest of World War II,[1] while also consulting for the New York City Health Department,[2] and then in 1945 obtained an assistant professorship in biostatistics at Minnesota.[5] Not long after, she moved again, to Vanderbilt University, where in the 1950s she co-authored many of her most significant research contributions as part of the Vanderbilt cooperative study of maternal and infant nutrition.[6] After postdoctoral study at the University of Chicago she also taught at Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University before returning a third time to the University of Minnesota as a faculty member again.[1]
After over twenty years and two tenured positions in academia, and desiring to be closer to her aging parents, Martin retired from her faculty position and joined the United States Forest Service, where she worked for another twenty years before retiring again.[2]
Recognition
In 1964 Martin was elected as a
References
- ^ a b c d e Margaret P. Martin, PhD, Benson Funeral Home, retrieved 2017-11-18
- ^ ISBN 9780262632461
- ^ "School of Public Health Officers of Instruction", Announcement of the School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine for the Winter and Spring Sessions 1945โ1946, Columbia University Bulletin of Information, 45th Series, vol. 39, Columbia University, August 25, 1945, pp. 5โ6
- ^ National Research Council Committee on Maternal Nutrition (1970), Annotated Bibliography on Maternal Nutrition, Public Health Service publications, vol. 2055, National Academies, pp. 43, 56
- JSTOR 2682318