David George Kendall

Not to be confused with Maurice Kendall, also a 20th-century English statistician.

David George Kendall
Born(1918-01-15)15 January 1918
Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died23 October 2007(2007-10-23) (aged 89)
Cambridge, England
AwardsGuy 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
FieldsProbability, statistics, statistical shape analysis
InstitutionsMagdalen College, Oxford
Churchill College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisorM. S. Bartlett[2]
Doctoral studentsNicholas 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]

  1. ^ a b Kingman, J. (2009). "David George Kendall. 15 January 1918 -- 23 October 2007". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 55: 121–138. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2008.0017.
  2. ^ David George Kendall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Times obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "David George Kendall", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews