Biographical entry Cornish, Edmund Alfred (1909 - 1973)

Summary

Edmund Alfred Cornish was Officer-in-Charge, Section of Mathematical Statistics, CSIR/O, Adelaide 1941-1954 and then Chief of the Division of Mathematical Statistics, CSIRO 1954-1973.

Details

Born 7 January 1909. Died 31 January 1973. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1954.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Edmund Alfred Cornish - Records, 1937 - 1969, MS 89; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Hannan, E. J., 'Obituary: Edmond Alfred Cornish (1909-1973) [includes list of publications]', Australian Journal of Statistics, vol. 15, no. 3, 1973, pp. 218-220. Details
• Moran, P. A. P., 'Edmund Alfred Cornish', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 2, no. 4, 1974, pp. 41-47. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9740240041.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Cornish, Edmund Alfred - Ms 89', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms089.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Cornish, E A', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-486903. Details
• P. A. P. Moran, 'Edmund Alfred Cornish 1909-1973', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/cornish.html. Details

See also

• Stephens, C.G. and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 7, no. 3, 1988, pp. 299-313. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9880730299.htm. Details