Michael Bulmer

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Michael Bulmer
Born
Michael George Bulmer

(1931-05-10) May 10, 1931 (age 92)
NationalityEnglish
Education University of Oxford
Known for Population genetics
Quantitative genetics
Twinning
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1997) [1]
Scientific career
Fields Biostatistics
Institutions University of Manchester
University of Oxford
Rutgers University
Thesis A method of finding approximate confidence limits for the analysis of variance (1958)
Website michaelbulmer.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]

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Michael Bulmer". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Michael Bulmer Biography". michaelbulmer.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. 1 2 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.