knighted for his services to Statistics. Cox was an undergraduate at Cambridge U and gained his doctorate at Leeds U. After employment in the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Wool Industries Research Establishment, he took on successive academic posts at Cambridge U (1950). Birkbeck College, London (1955), and IC (1966). From 1989 to 1994 he was Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was Editor of Biometrika from 1965 to 1991. He was the IMS Rietz Lecturer in 1973 and its Wald Lecturer in 1990. In 1989 he was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer. In turn he was President of the Bernoulli Society (1979), the RSS (1980) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (1995). He received the Guy Medal of the RSS in Silver in 1961, and in Gold in 1973. He was elected FRS in 1973 and in 2010 he was awarded that Society’s Copley Medal ‘for his seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistics’. He was elected to membership of NAS in 1998 and to Honorary Life Membership of the IBS in 2001. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the ISI. His 62 research students include Aranda-Ordaz and Gehan. He was knighted in 1985. In 2016 he was the inaugural winner of the International Prize in Statistics. Worth $75k, it is intended to be the Statistics equivalent to a Nobel prize. Awarded biannually by a committee including representatives of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the International Biometric Society, the International Statistical Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society.

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