Biography:Michael Bulmer

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Short description: British biostatistician
Michael Bulmer
Born
Michael George Bulmer

(1931-05-10) May 10, 1931 (age 93)
Birmingham, England
NationalityEnglish
EducationUniversity of Oxford
Known forPopulation genetics
Quantitative genetics
Twinning
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1997)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Oxford
Rutgers University
ThesisA method of finding approximate confidence limits for the analysis of variance (1958)
Websitemichaelbulmer.com

Michael George Bulmer FRS (born 10 May 1931)[2][3] is a British biostatistician. He is an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[2] He is known for his work in quantitative genetics and on the biology of twinning,[1] as well as for his 2003 biography of Francis Galton.[4]

Biography

Bulmer was born in Birmingham, England , in 1931. After graduating from Rugby School, he studied at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1957, taking a B.A. in animal physiology in 1952, a diploma in applied statistics the following year, a D.Phil. in statistics in 1957, and a D.Sc.[3] He then lectured at the University of Manchester from 1957 to 1959, after which he became a lecturer in biomathematics at the University of Oxford. In 1991, he left Oxford to become a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, where he remained until 1995.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Michael Bulmer" (in en-gb). https://royalsociety.org/people/michael-bulmer-11161/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Michael Bulmer Biography". http://michaelbulmer.com/Bulmer.html. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Levens, R.G.C., ed (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 400. 
  4. Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty (June 2007). "Michael Bulmer xvii + 357 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.". Isis 98 (2): 398–399. doi:10.1086/521468. 

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