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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.
Der Weldon Memorial Prize oder Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal ist ein Preis für Anwendungen mathematischer oder statistischer Methoden in der Biologie und wird von der Universität Oxford vergeben. Ursprünglich war eine jährliche Vergabe vorgesehen, die Abstände sind aber in der Regel länger.
Amended by Decree (4) of 10 May 2001 and by the General Purposes Committee of Council on 21 February 2014 and 1 August 2022 ( Gazette, Vol. 152, p. 493, 7 July 2022) 1. The prize, founded to perpetuate the name of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, MA, D.Sc., formerly Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Fellow of Merton College, and to ...
Weldon Memorial Prize — University of Bristol. McNamara, John M (Recipient) School of Mathematics. Probability. Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants. Description. Given yearly by the University of Oxford.
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Weldon was the second child of the journalist and industrial chemist, Walter Weldon, and his wife Anne Cotton. On 13 March 1883, Weldon married Florence Tebb (1858–1936), daughter of the social reformer William Tebb.
Medicine was his intended career and he spent the academic year 1876-1877 at University College London. Among his teachers were the zoologist E. Ray Lankester and the mathematician Olaus Henrici. In the following year he transferred to King's College London and then to St John's College, Cambridgein 1878. There Weldon studied with the developmental...
Upon returning to Cambridge in 1882, he was appointed university lecturer in Invertebrate Morphology. Weldon's work was centred on the development of a fuller understanding of marine biological phenomena and selective death rates of these organisms. In 1889 Weldon succeeded Lankester in the Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London, and...
In 1894, Weldon rolled a set of 12 dice 26,306 times. He collected the data in part, 'to judge whether the differences between a series of group frequencies and a theoretical law, taken as a whole, were or were not more than might be attributed to the chance fluctuations of random sampling.' Weldon's dice data were used by Karl Pearsonin his pionee...
Pearson, Karl (2011) [1906]. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon 1860–1906: A Memoir Reprinted from Biometrika. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60122-2.Magnello E. 2001. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, in Statisticians of the Centuries(eds C.C. Heyde and E. Seneta) p261-264. New York: Springer.Shipley A.E. 1908. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon. Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80pxxv-xli.Works by or about Raphael Weldon at Internet ArchiveO'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Raphael Weldon", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsBourne, Gilbert Charles (1912). "Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 629-631.14 de nov. de 2022 · The Weldon Memorial Prize is awarded annually by Oxford University for “noteworthy contributions to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology”. It was first awarded in 1911 and past recipients have included Fisher, Haldane, Bartlett, Cox, May and Maynard-Smith.
9 de abr. de 2024 · April 9, 2024. Prof. L. Mahadevan has been elected to receive the 2024 Weldon Memorial Prize. The prize was founded in memory of W.R.F. Weldon, an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry.
