The Guy Medals are awarded by the
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good.
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in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded annually. The Gold Medal was awarded every three years between 1987 and 2011, but is awarded biennially as of 2019. They are named after
William Guy
William Augustus Guy (13 June 1810 – 10 September 1885) was a British physician and medical statistician.
Life
He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg an ...
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*The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to fellows or others who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics.
*The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to any fellow or, in exceptional cases, to two or more fellows in respect of a paper/papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its ordinary meetings, or in respect of a paper/papers published in any of the journals of the Society. General contributions to statistics may also be taken into account.
*The Guy Medal in Bronze is awarded to fellows, or to non-fellows who are members of a section or a local group, in respect of a paper or papers read to a section or local group or at any conference run by the Society, its sections or local groups, or published in any of the Society's journals. Preference will be given to people under the age of 35. Exceptionally two or more authors of a paper/papers may be considered for the award provided they are members of sections or local groups.
Gold Medalists
*1892
Charles Booth
*1894
Robert Giffen
*1900
Jervoise Athelstane Baines
*1907
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
*1908
Patrick G. Craigie
*1911
G. Udny Yule
*1920
T. H. C. Stevenson
*1930
A. William Flux
*1935
Arthur Lyon Bowley
Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys.
Early life
Bowley's father, James Wil ...
*1945
Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (9 August 1880 – 5 October 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician.
Biography
Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in East End of London, London's East End, the only chil ...
*1946
Ronald Fisher
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*1953
A. Bradford Hill
*1955
Egon Pearson
*1960
Frank Yates
*1962
Harold Jeffreys
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*1966
Jerzy Neyman
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*1968
Maurice Kendall
*1969
M. S. Bartlett
*1972
Harald Cramér
*1973
David Cox
*1975
George Alfred Barnard
*1978
Roy Allen
*1981
David George Kendall
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*1984
Henry Daniels
*1986
Bernard Benjamin
*1987
Robin L. Plackett
*1990
Peter Armitage
*1993
George E. P. Box
*1996
Peter Whittle
*1999
Michael Healy
*2002
Dennis Lindley
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Biography
Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...
*2005
John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.
Contributions
Nelder's work was inf ...
*2008
James Durbin
__NOTOC__
James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.
Education
The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
*2011
C. R. Rao
*2013
John Kingman
__NOTOC__
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*2014
Bradley Efron
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*2016
Adrian Smith
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Smith grew up in London ...
*2019
Stephen Buckland
*2020
David Spiegelhalter
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*2022
Nancy Reid
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Silver Medalists
* 1893
John Glover
* 1894
Augustus Sauerbeck
* 1895
Arthur Lyon Bowley
Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys.
Early life
Bowley's father, James Wil ...
* 1897
F.J. Atkinson
* 1899
C.S. Loch
* 1900
Richard Crawford
* 1901
Thomas A. Welton
* 1902
R. H. Hooker
* 1903
Yves Guyot
Yves Guyot (6 September 184322 February 1928) was a French politician and economist. Biography
He was born at Dinan. Educated at Rennes, he took up the profession of journalism, coming to Paris in 1867. He was for a short period editor-in-chief of ...
* 1904
D.A. Thomas
* 1905
R. Henry Rew
* 1906
W.H. Shaw
* 1907
N.A. Humphreys
* 1909
Edward Brabrook
* 1910
G. H. Wood
* 1913
R. Dudfield
* 1914
S. Rowson
* 1915
S.J. Chapman
* 1918
J. Shield Nicholson
* 1919
J. C. Stamp
* 1921
A. William Flux
* 1927
H. W. Macrosty
* 1928
Ethel Newbold
Ethel May Newbold (28 August 1882 – 25 March 1933) was an English epidemiologist and statistician. She was the first woman awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 1928.
Early life
Ethel May Newbold was born in Tunbridge Wells. One of eleven chil ...
* 1930
Herbert Edward Soper
* 1934
J.H. Jones
* 1935
Ernest Charles Snow
* 1936
Ralph George Hawtrey
Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University of Cambridge intellectual secret society.
...
* 1938
E.C. Ramsbottom
* 1939
Leon Isserlis
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* 1940
Hector Leak
* 1945
Maurice Kendall
* 1950
Harry Campion
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* 1951
F. A. A. Menzler
* 1952
M. S. Bartlett
* 1953
J. Oscar Irwin
* 1954
L. H. C. Tippett
* 1955
David George Kendall
David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic li ...
* 1957
Henry Daniels
* 1958
George Barnard
* 1960
Edgar C. Fieller
* 1961
David Cox
* 1962
P. V. Sukhatme
* 1964
George Box
* 1965
C. R. Rao
* 1966
Peter Whittle
* 1968
Dennis Lindley
Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.
Biography
Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...
* 1973
Robin Plackett
* 1976
James Durbin
__NOTOC__
James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.
Education
The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
* 1977
John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.
Contributions
Nelder's work was inf ...
* 1978
Peter Armitage
* 1979
Michael Healy
* 1980
M. Stone
* 1981
John Kingman
__NOTOC__
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* 1982
Henry Wynn
* 1983
Julian E. Besag
* 1984
John C. Gittins
* 1985
Derek Bissell and
Wilfrid Pridmore
* 1986
Richard Peto
* 1987
John Copas
* 1988
John Aitchison
* 1989
Frank Kelly
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* 1990
David Clayton
* 1991
Richard L. Smith
* 1992
Robert Curnow
* 1993
Adrian Smith
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Smith grew up in London ...
* 1994
David Spiegelhalter
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* 1995
Bernard Silverman
* 1996
Steffen Lauritzen
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* 1997
Peter Diggle
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* 1998
Harvey Goldstein
* 1999
Peter Green
* 2000
Walter Gilks
* 2001
Philip Dawid
* 2002
David Hand
* 2003
Kanti Mardia
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* 2004
Peter Donnelly
* 2005
Peter McCullagh
* 2006
Michael Titterington
* 2007
Howell Tong
* 2008
Gareth Roberts
* 2009
Sylvia Richardson
* 2010
Iain M. Johnstone
* 2011
Peter Hall
* 2012
David Firth
* 2013
Brian D. Ripley
* 2014
Jianqing Fan
* 2015
Anthony Davison
* 2016
Nancy Reid
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* 2017
Neil Shephard
* 2018
Peter Bühlmann
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Biography
Bühlmann studied mathematics from 1985 at the ETH Zurich with Diplom in 1990 and doctorate in 1993. His thesis ''The Blockwise Bootstrap i ...
* 2019
Susan Murphy
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* 2020
Arnaud Doucet
* 2021
Håvard Rue
* 2022
Paul Fearnhead
Bronze Medalists
* 1936
William Gemmell Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.
Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cam ...
* 1938
R.F. George
* 1949
W.J. Jennett
* 1962
Peter Armitage
* 1966
James Durbin
__NOTOC__
James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.
Education
The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
* 1967
F. Downton
* 1968
Robin Plackett
* 1969
M.C. Pike
* 1970
P.G. Moore
* 1971
D.J. Bartholomew
* 1974
G.N. Wilkinson
* 1975
A.F. Bissell
* 1976
P.L. Goldsmith
* 1977
A.F.M. Smith
* 1978
Philip Dawid
* 1979
T.M.F. Smith
* 1980
A.J. Fox
* 1982
Stuart Pocock
* 1983
Peter McCullagh
* 1984
Bernard Silverman
* 1985
David Spiegelhalter
Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the Un ...
* 1986
D.F. Hendry
* 1987
Peter Green
* 1988
Sarah C. Darby
* 1989
Sheila M. Gore
* 1990
Valerie S. Isham
* 1991
Mike G. Kenward
* 1992
Christopher Jennison
* 1993
Jonathan Tawn
* 1994
R.F.A. Poultney
* 1995
Iain Johnstone
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Early life
Johnstone attended Crosfields School, Reading, Campbell College, Belfast and Bristol University.
Career
Johnst ...
* 1996
John N.S. Matthews
* 1997
Gareth Roberts
* 1998 David Firth
* 1999
Peter W.F. Smith and
Jon Forster
* 2000
Jon Wakefield
* 2001
Guy Nason
* 2002
Geert Molenberghs
* 2003
Peter Lynn
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* 2004
Nicola Best
* 2005
Steve Brooks
* 2006
Matthew Stephens
* 2007
Paul Fearnhead
* 2008
Fiona Steele
* 2009
Chris Holmes
* 2010
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos
* 2011
Nicolai Meinshausen
* 2012
Richard Samworth
Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's Colleg ...
* 2013
Piotr Fryzlewicz
* 2014
Ming Yuan
* 2015
Jinchi Lv
* 2017
Yingying Fan
* 2018
Peng Ding
* 2019
Jonas Peters
* 2020
Rachel McCrea
* 2021
Pierre E. Jacob
See also
*
List of mathematics awards
References
External links
Guy Medal Royal Statistical Society website.
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Awards of the Royal Statistical Society
Awards established in 1892
1892 establishments in the United Kingdom