... intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their scientific aspects and promote the application of numbers to the solution of important problems in all the relations of life in which the numerical method can be employed, with a view to determining the laws which regulate them.
Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society who have made innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics are considered for Gold Medals.
1892 Charles Booth
1894 Robert Giffen
1900 J Athelsten Baines
1907 F Y Edgeworth
1908 P G Craigie
1911 G Udny Yule
1920 T H C Stevenson
1930 A W Flux
1935 A L Bowley
1945 M Greenwood
1946 R A Fisher
1953 A Bradford Hill
1955 E S Pearson
1960 F Yates
1962 Harold Jeffreys
1966 J Neyman
1968 M G Kendall
1969 M S Bartlett
1972 H Cramer
1973 David Cox
1975 G A Barnard
1978 Roy Allen
1981 D G Kendall
1984 H E Daniels
1986 B Benjamin
1987 R L Plackett
1990 P Armitage
1993 G E P Box
1996 P Whittle
1999 Michael Healy
2002 D Lindley
2005 John Nelder
MacTutor links:
Royal Statistical Society, etc:
Royal Statistical Society Guy Gold Medal
Royal Statistical Society Guy Silver Medal
Royal Statistical Society Guy Bronze Medal
Other Web site:
Royal Statistical Society Web site
The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/RSSGuyGold.html