Background
Besag was born in Loughborough and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School.
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Julian Besag
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He began studying engineering at the University of Cambridge but moved to the University of Birmingham to study statistics, obtaining his Bachelor of Science in 1968.
Career
He then spent a year as a research assistant to Maurice Bartlett at the University of Oxford before obtaining a lectureship at the University of Liverpool. He moved to the University of Durham in 1975, where he became a professor in 1986. He was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle during 1989-1990 and, after a year at Newcastle University, returned to Seattle long-term.
He officially retired in 2007 but remained an emeritus professor
At his death in 2010 he was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. Besag was an Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited researcher
His 1986 paper "On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures" was the most cited paper by a United Kingdom mathematical scientist in the 1980s. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him its Guy Medal in Silver in 1983 for his contributions to spatial statistics, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.
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Royal Society.
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United Kingdom