Robert Nicholas Curnow was born in 1933. In 1992, Curnow was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver.

In 1997 Curnow was appointed President of the Royal Statistical Society. He served until 1999. During his term of office, Curnow contributed to the Green Paper "Statistics: a matter of trust" (Treasury, 1998a) and "Your right to know" (Treasury, 1998b).[1][2]

Curnow is co-author of 146 publications. His last was “How phenotypic matching based on neutral mating cues enables speciation in locally adapted populations” in November 2019.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Applied Statistics at the University of Reading. ISBN 0704911272.
  2. ^ Curnow, Robert N. (2006). Applied statistics at the University of Reading: the first forty years. University of Reading. ISBN 978-0-7049-1127-7.
  3. ^ "Robert Nicholas Curnow University of Reading Department of Mathematics and Statistics Ph.D."
  4. ^ Reading, The University of. "Items where Author is "Curnow, Professor Robert" - CentAUR". centaur.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  5. ^ Curnow, Robert N. (1999). "Unfathomable Nature and Government Policy". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician). 48 (4): 463–476. doi:10.1111/1467-9884.00205. ISSN 0039-0526.
Academic offices Preceded byT. M. F. Smith, D. J. Bartholomew, Adrian Smith (statistician) Robert Nicholas Curnow President of the Royal Statistical Society 1997–1999 Succeeded byDenise Lievesley, Peter Green (statistician), Andy Grieve


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