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Lancaster, Henry Oliver (1913 - 2001)

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Physician and Statistician
Born: 1 February 1913  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 2 December 2001.
Henry Oliver Lancaster was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Medical Statistics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney 1946-59 and Professor of Mathematical Statistics 1959-78.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1937Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at University of Sydney
c. 1937 - c. 1939Resident Medical Officer and Resident Pathologist at the Sydney Hospital
c. 1939Junior Fellow in Medicine of the Postgraduate Medical Foundation at Prince Henry Hospital
c. 1940Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Sydney
1940 - 1946Pathologist with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
1946 - 1959Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Medical Statistics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney
1948 - 1949Rockefeller Fellow in Medicine at the London School of Hygiene
1952 - 1953President of the Statistical Society of New South Wales
1953Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Sydney
1959 - 1971Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics
1961 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1965 - 1966President of the Statistical Society of Australia
1966Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Sydney
1966 - 1967President of the Australian Mathematical Society
1971Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Sydney
1980Pitman Medal received from the Statistical Society of Australia

 

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