About Edmund Alfred Cornish
Lived 1909 – 1973 (aged 64). Edmund Alfred Cornish was a mathematician.
Edmund Alfred Cornish DSc, FAA (7 January 1909 – 31 January 1973) was one of Australia's eminent mathematicians and statisticians. He was appointed an (inaugural) Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (in 1954). He worked as the Officer-in-charge in Mathematical Statistics section of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Adelaide from 1941. In 1954 he became the Chief of this division and served till his death in 1973.
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Australian mathematician and statistician
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Edmund Alfred Cornish was born on 7 January 1909.
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