Egon Pearson

Egon Pearson
Born
Egon Sharpe Pearson

11 August 1895
Died12 June 1980 (1980-06-13) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forNeyman–Pearson lemma
Spouses
  • Dorothy Eileen Jolly
  • Margaret Theodisia Scott
Children
  • Judith Pearson
  • Sarah Pearson
Parents
AwardsWeldon Memorial Prize (1935)
Guy Medal (Gold, 1955)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Doctoral studentsGeorge E. P. Box
Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh
Pao-Lu Hsu
Norman Lloyd Johnson

Egon Sharpe Pearson CBE FRS[1] (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a British statistician.[2][3]

  1. ^ Bartlett, M. S. (1981). "Egon Sharpe Pearson. 11 August 1895-12 June 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 27: 425–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0017. JSTOR 769879.
  2. ^ Egon Pearson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Egon Pearson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews