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Tweedie, Richard Lewis (1947 - 2001)

Statistician and Mathematician

Born: 22 August 1947 Leeton, New South Wales. Died: 7 June 2001.

Richard Lewis Tweedie was General Manager and later Managing Director of SIROMATH, a private mathematical and statistical consulting company part-owned by CSIRO. His outstanding career in the fields of applied probability modeling and statistical methodology was cut short on June 7, 2001 when he died from a heart attack at the age of 53.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1968 Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the Australian National University in Canberra
1969 Master of Arts (MA) completed at Australian National University
1972 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
1981 - 1987 Managing Director of SIROMATH Pty Ltd
1986 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the Australian National University
1987 - 1991 Dean of the School of Information and Computing Sciences and Foundation Professor of Information Sciences at Bond University, Queensland
1991 - 1998 Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University, USA
1992 - 1997 Chairman of Colorado State University
1999 - 2001 Head of the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota, USA

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997
Modified: 6 September 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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