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Nelder, John Ashworth was born on October 8, 1924 in Dulverton, England. Son of Reginald Charles and Edith May Ashworth (Briggs) Nelder.
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Nelder, John Ashworth was born on October 8, 1924 in Dulverton, England. Son of Reginald Charles and Edith May Ashworth (Briggs) Nelder.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1948. Doctor of Science, University Birmingham, England, 1968. Doctor of Science, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1980.
Born in Brushford, near Dulverton, Somerset, Nelder was educated at Blundell"s School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics. Nelder"s appointments included Head of the Statistics Section at the National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne from 1951 to 1968 and Head of the Statistics Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1968 to 1984. During his time at Wellesbourne he spent a year (1965–1966) at the Waite Institute in Adelaide, South Australia, where he worked with Graham Wilkinson on Genstat.
He held an appointment as Visiting Professor at Imperial College London from 1972 onwards.
He was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities – sightings of a series of rare birds, preserved by a taxidermist and provided with bogus histories. Nelder died on 7 August 2010 in Luton and Dunstable Hospital, taken there after a fall at home, which was incidental to the cause of death.
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Sergeant Royal Air Force, 1943-1946, South Africa. Fellow Royal Society, Royal Statistical Society (president 1985-1986, Silver medal), International Statistical Institute. Member International Biometric Society (president 1978-1979).
Married Mary Hawkes, January 13, 1955. Children: Jan Richard, Rosalind May.