David George Kendall
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David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was a British statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S. Bartlett during the war, and visited Princeton University after the war.
Kendall was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and attended Ripon Grammar School before attending Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1943. From 1962 to 1985 he was Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Churchill College. He was a world expert in probability and data analysis, and pioneered Stochastic Geometry including the study of ley lines. He defined Kendall's notation for queueing theory.
In 1980 the London Mathematical Society awarded Kendall their Senior Whitehead Prize,[1] and in 1981 the Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Gold. Bridget Kendall and Wilfrid Kendall are among his children.
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- ^ London Mathematical Society. List of Prizewinners. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
