Rose Baker | |
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Nationality | British |
Title | Professor emeritus |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Physics Mathematics Statistics |
Sub-discipline | Applied statistics |
Institutions | Salford Business School Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist,mathematician,and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford. [1]
Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge,earned a master's degree there in 1968,and completed her Ph.D. in 1972. [1] Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers. [2]
After a year in India as a lecturer in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton,Oxfordshire,where she worked from 1973 to 1977. [2]
At that time,as she writes,"funds began drying up in big physics", [2] so she moved to the University of Salford,where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990. In 1990,she became a lecturer in the department of mathematics at Salford,and in 1998 she moved to statistics as a reader. She was given a personal chair in 2001, [1] and retired in 2013. [3]
Baker is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. [1] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [4] She has won the Catherine Richards Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications twice,in 2002 for a paper on paradoxes in probability theory and in 2010 for her work providing a formula for the health effects of obesity,as a function of body mass index. [5]
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