The Weldon Memorial Prize, also known as the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, is given yearly by the University of Oxford. The prize is to be awarded
without regard to nationality or membership of any University to the person who, in the judgement of the electors, has, in the ten years next preceding the date of the award, published the most noteworthy contribution to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology. (Biology shall, for the purposes of this clause, be interpreted as including Zoology, Botany, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, and Medical Science.)
It is named in honor of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, former Linacre Professor of Zoology at the university. It was established through the efforts of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Although intended to be given yearly, it has in the past been given less often.
Recipients
1911 David HeronWELDON MEMORIAL PRIZE Past Prize-winners 1912 Karl Pearson 1914 Charles B. Goring 1920 J. Arthur Harris 1920 Ethel M. Elderton 1923 Johannes Schmidt 1926 Major Greenwood 1930 Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1932 Geoffrey M. Morant 1935 Egon S. Pearson 1938 J. B. S. Haldane 1941 Julia Bell 1944 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis 1947 Sewall Wright 1950 Lionel S. Penrose 1953 Frank Yates 1956 David J. Finney 1959 E. B. Ford 1962 Kenneth Mather 1965 Motoo Kimura 1969 I. Michael Lerner 1971 Maurice S. Bartlett 1974 David Kendall 1978 Luca Cavalli-Sforza 1980 Robert May 1983 David R. Cox 1986 Tomoko Ohta 1989 Roy M. Anderson 1992 George Oster 1995 Michael P. Hassell 1996 Martin Nowak 1998 John Maynard Smith 2000 Joseph Felsenstein 2001 Elizabeth Thompson 2002 Warren Ewens 2003 Richard Peto 2004 David Sankoff 2005 Geoffrey West 2006 Nancy Kopell 2007 Brian Charlesworth 2008 Peter Donnelly 2009 David Spiegelhalter 2010 Russell S. Lande 2011 David Haussler 2012 Gil McVean 2013 Karl Friston 2014 John McNamara 2015 David J. Brenner 2016 Sarah (Sally) P. Otto 2017 Shripad Tuljapurkar 2018 Angela McLean 2019 Stephen W. Pacala 2020 Simon Myers 2022 Deirdre Hollingsworth, Graham Medley, and Julia R. Gog on behalf of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational sub-group (SPI-M-O). 2024 L. Mahadevan
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