The
Guy Medals are awarded by the
Royal Statistical SocietyThe Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Gold Medal is awarded triennially, the other two are awarded annually. They are named after
William GuyWilliam Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...
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- The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to those "who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
". It can be awarded both to fellows (members) of the Society and to non-fellows.
- The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded only to fellows and recognises a paper or papers "of special merit" formally presented at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society or published in its journals
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- The Guy Medal in Bronze recognises a paper or papers presented at any meeting or conference run by the Society or by one of its sections or local groups, or published in the Society's journals. It is awarded only to fellows of the Society and members of one of its local groups or sections, with preference given to those under 35.
Gold Medallists
- 1892 Charles Booth
Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
- 1894 Robert Giffen
Sir Robert Giffen KCB , was a Scottish statistician and economist. He was born at Strathaven, Lanarkshire.He entered a solicitor's office in Glasgow, and while in that city attended courses at the university. He drifted into journalism, and after working for the Stirling Journal he went to London...
- 1900 Jervoise Athelstane Baines
- 1907 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s...
- 1908 Patrick G. Craigie
- 1911 G. Udny Yule
- 1920 T.H.C. Stevenson
- 1930 A. William Flux
Sir Alfred William Flux CB was a British economist and statistician.Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School then studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a Senior Wrangler in 1887...
- 1935 A.L. Bowley
- 1945 Major Greenwood
Major 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...
- 1946 R.A. Fisher
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation...
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- 1953 A. Bradford Hill
- 1955 E.S. Pearson
- 1960 Frank Yates
Frank 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...
- 1962 Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...
- 1966 Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...
- 1968 M.G. Kendall
- 1969 M.S. Bartlett
- 1972 Harald Cramér
Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was once described by John Kingman as "one of the giants of statistical theory".-Early life:Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September...
- 1973 David Cox
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...
- 1975 G.A. Barnard
- 1978 Roy Allen
Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
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- 1981 D.G. Kendall
- 1984 H.E. Daniels
- 1986 Bernard Benjamin
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- 1987 Robin L. Plackett
- 1990 Peter Armitage
Peter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
- 1993 George E.P. Box
- 1996 Peter Whittle
Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics...
- 1999 Michael Healy
Michael John Romer Healy is a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and...
- 2002 D.V. Lindley
- 2005 John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder FRS was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.-Contributions:...
- 2008 James Durbin
James Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
- 2011 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
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Silver Medallists
- 1893 John Glover
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- 1894 Augustus Sauerbeck
- 1895 A.L. Bowley
- 1897 F.J. Atkinson
- 1899 C.S. Loch
- 1900 Richard Crawford
Richard Crawford is an American music historian, currently a professor of music at the University of Michigan. His American Musical Landscape is one of the seminal works of American music history, published in 2001. He has published a number of other books, and edited a series of books on American...
- 1901 Thomas A. Welton
Thomas Abercrombie Welton was a statistician and chartered accountant. He received a Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society in 1901.- External links :* * *...
- 1902 R.H. Hooker
- 1903 Yves Guyot
Yves Guyot was a French politician and economist.He was born at Dinan. Educated al Rennes, he took up the profession of journalism, coming to Paris in 1867...
- 1904 D.A. Thomas
- 1905 R.H. Rew
- 1906 W.H. Shaw
- 1907 N.A. Humphreys
- 1909 Edward Brabrook
- 1910 G.H. Wood
George Henry Wood was a labour statistician who was a student of and worked with Arthur Bowley. From 1907 he was the Secretary for the Huddersfield and District Woollen Manufacturers and Spinners Association...
- 1913 R. Dudfield
- 1914 S. Rowson
- 1915 S.J. Chapman
- 1918 J. Shield Nicholson
- 1919 J.C. Stamp
- 1921 A. William Flux
Sir Alfred William Flux CB was a British economist and statistician.Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School then studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a Senior Wrangler in 1887...
- 1927 H.W. Macrosty
- 1928 Ethel Newbold
- 1930 Herbert Edward Soper
- 1934 J.H. Jones
- 1935 E.C. Snow
- 1936 R.G. Hawtrey
- 1938 E.C. Ramsbottom
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- 1939 Leon Isserlis
Leon Isserlis was a Russian-born British statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem...
- 1940 H. Leak
- 1945 Maurice Kendall
Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.-Education and early life:...
- 1950 Harry Campion
Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office...
- 1951 F.A.A. Menzler
- 1952 M. S. Bartlett
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns...
- 1953 J. Oscar Irwin
- 1954 L.H.C. Tippett
- 1955 D.G. Kendall
- 1957 Henry Daniels
Henry Ellis Daniels FRS was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society , and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980...
- 1958 George Barnard
George Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.-Biography:...
- 1960 Edgar C. Fieller
- 1961 David Cox
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...
- 1962 Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
- 1964 George Box
- 1965 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
- 1966 Peter Whittle
Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics...
- 1968 Dennis Lindley
Dennis Victor Lindley is a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.Dennis Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child and his father was a local building contractor...
- 1973 Robin Plackett
Robin L. Plackett was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs....
- 1976 James Durbin
James Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
- 1977 John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder FRS was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.-Contributions:...
- 1978 Peter Armitage
Peter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
- 1979 Michael Healy
Michael John Romer Healy is a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and...
- 1980 M. Stone
- 1981 John Kingman
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, born on 28 August 1939 in Beckenham, Kent, is a British mathematician.He was N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by Sir...
- 1982 Henry Wynn
Henry Philip Wynn is a British statistician.He gained a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Imperial College. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to City University in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics...
- 1983 Julian E. Besag
- 1984 John C. Gittins
John C. Gittins is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University....
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- 1985 A. Bissell and W. Pridmore
- 1986 Richard Peto
Sir 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....
- 1987 John Copas
- 1988 J. Aitchison
- 1989 F.P. Kelly
- 1990 David Clayton
David George Clayton, born 13 June 1944, is a distinguished British statistician and epidemiologist. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Principal Research Fellow in the Diabetes and Inflammation...
- 1991 R.L. Smith
- 1992 Robert Curnow
- 1993 A.F.M. Smith
Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...
- 1994 David Spiegelhalter
David 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...
- 1995 Bernard Silverman
Bernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
- 1996 Steffen Lauritzen
- 1997 Peter Diggle
- 1998 Harvey Goldstein
Harvey Goldstein is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables....
- 1999 Peter Green
- 2000 Walter Gilks
- 2001 Philip Dawid
Alexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...
- 2002 David Hand
David John Hand is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, the computational statistics and the foundations of statistics....
- 2003 Kanti Mardia
- 2004 Peter Donnelly
Peter 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...
- 2005 Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D...
- 2006 Michael Titterington
- 2007 Howell Tong
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- 2008 Gareth Roberts
Gareth O. Roberts is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at the University of Warwick....
- 2009 Sylvia Richardson
Sylvia Richardson is a French Bayesian statistician. She has been chair in Biostatistics at Imperial College London since 2000. Previously, she held lectureships at Warwick University and the University of Paris V....
- 2010 Iain M. Johnstone
- 2011 Peter Hall
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Bronze Medallists
- 1936 William Gemmell Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States....
- 1938 R.F. George
- 1949 W.J. Jennett
- 1962 Peter Armitage
Peter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
- 1966 James Durbin
James Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
- 1967 F. Downton
- 1968 Robin Plackett
Robin L. Plackett was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs....
- 1969 M.C. Pike
- 1970 P.G. Moore
- 1971 D.J. Bartholomew
David John Bartholomew FBA is a British statistician who was President of the Royal Statistical Society 2002–2003.In 1955 he married Marian Elsie Lake, and they have two daughters.-Career:...
- 1974 G.N. Wilkinson
- 1975 A.F. Bissell
- 1976 P.L. Goldsmith
- 1977 A.F.M. Smith
Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...
- 1978 Philip Dawid
Alexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...
- 1979 T.M.F. Smith
T. M. F. "Fred" Smith is a British statistician known for his research in survey sampling.Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959. He has been professor of mathematics at the University of Southampton....
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- 1980 A.J. Fox
- 1982 Stuart Pocock
Stuart J. Pocock is a British medical statistician. He has been professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1989. His research interests include statistical methods for the design, monitoring, analysis and reporting of randomized clinical trials...
- 1983 Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D...
- 1984 Bernard Silverman
Bernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
- 1985 David Spiegelhalter
David 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...
- 1986 D.F. Hendry
- 1987 Peter Green
- 1988 S.C. Darby
- 1989 S.M. Gore
- 1990 Valerie S. Isham
- 1991 M.G. Kenward
- 1992 C. Jennison
- 1993 Jonathan Tawn
- 1994 R.F.A. Poultney
- 1995 I. Johnstone
- 1996 J.N.S. Matthews
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- 1997 Gareth Roberts
Gareth O. Roberts is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at the University of Warwick....
- 1998 D. Firth
- 1999 P.W.F. Smith and J. Forster
- 2000 J. Wakefield
- 2001 Guy Nason
Guy Nason is a British statistician, a Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol and Head of the Mathematics Department there.-Biography:...
- 2002 Geert Molenberghs
- 2003 Peter Lynn
- 2004 Nicola Best
- 2005 Steve Brooks
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge....
- 2006 Matthew Stephens
- 2007 Paul Fearnhead
Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. His interests include genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes – and sampling theory.- References :...
- 2008 Fiona Steele
- 2009 Chris Holmes
Chris Holmes is a British applied mathematician. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. After working in industry he completed his doctorate in Bayesian statistics at Imperial College, London....
- 2010 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos
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