Background
Turner, Malcolm Elijah was born on May 27, 1929 in Atlanta. Son of Malcolm Elijah and Margaret (Parker) Turner.
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Malcolm Elijah Turner
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Student, Emory University, 1947-1948; Bachelor of Arts, Duke U., 1952; M.Exptl. Statistics, North Carolina State University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, 1959.
Career
Analytical statistician, Communicable Disease Center, United States Public Health Service, Atlanta, 1953;
research associate, U. Cincinnati, 1955;
assistant professor, U. Cincinnati, 1955-1958;
assistant statistician, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1957-1958;
associate professor, Medical College Virginia, Richmond, 1958-1963;
chairman division biometry, Medical College Virginia, Richmond, 1959-1963;
professor, department chairman statistics and biometry, Emory University, Atlanta, 1963-1969;
department chairman biomathematics, professor biostatistics and biomathematics, U. Alabama, Birmingham, 1970-1982;
professor biostatistics and biomathematics, U. Alabama, Birmingham, since 1982;
professor emeritus biostatistics, U. Alabama, since 1998. Instructor summers Yale University, 1966, University of California at Berkeley, 1971, VanderbiltU., 1975. Professor of University Kansas, 1968-1969.
Visiting professor Atlanta U., 1969. Consultant to industry.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Alabama Academy Science, American Statistical Association (honorary), American Association for the Advancement of Science (honorary). Member American Association of University Professors, American Medical Association (affiliate), Biometrics Society (managing editor Biometrics 1962-1969), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mensa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Sigma.
Connections
Married Ann Clay Bowers, Sept.16, 1948. Children: Malcolm Elijah IV, Allison Ann, Clay Shumate, Margaret Jean. Married Rachel Patricia Farmer, February 1, 1968.
Children: Aletavan Riper, Leila Samantha, Alexis St. John, Walter McCamy.
- Father:
- Malcolm Elijah Turner
- Mother:
- Margaret (Parker) Turner
- Spouse:
- Ann Clay Bowers
- Spouse:
- Rachel Patricia Farmer
- child:
- Walter McCamy Turner
- child:
- Clay Shumate Turner
- child:
- Aletavan Riper Turner
- child:
- Malcolm Elijah IV Turner
- child:
- Margaret Jean Turner
- child:
- Allison Ann Turner
- child:
- Leila Samantha Turner
- child:
- Alexis St. John Turner
