Michael Bulmer | |
Birth Name: | Michael George Bulmer |
Birth Date: | 10 May 1931 |
Birth Place: | Birmingham, England |
Nationality: | English |
Fields: | Biostatistics |
Workplaces: | University of Manchester University of Oxford Rutgers University |
Education: | University of Oxford |
Thesis Title: | A method of finding approximate confidence limits for the analysis of variance |
Thesis Year: | 1958 |
Known For: | Population genetics Quantitative genetics Twinning |
Awards: | Fellow of the Royal Society (1997)[1] |
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Michael George Bulmer FRS (born 10 May 1931)[2] is a British biostatistician. He is an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. 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.[3]
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. 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.[4]