Michael Bulmer | |
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Born | Michael George Bulmer May 10, 1931 |
Nationality | English |
Education | University of Oxford |
Known for |
Population genetics Quantitative genetics Twinning |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1997) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biostatistics |
Institutions |
University of Manchester University of Oxford Rutgers University |
Thesis | A method of finding approximate confidence limits for the analysis of variance (1958) |
Website |
michaelbulmer |
Michael George Bulmer FRS (born 10 May 1931) [2] [3] is a British biostatistician. He is an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. [2] 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. [4]
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. [3] 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. [2]