Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research

Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research: The Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research is a professorship in operational research at the University of Cambridge.^[1] It was established in 1966 by a benefaction from Esso in memory of Sir Winston Churchill, who died the previous year. This was the second professorship established within the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory (the first being the Professorship of Mathematical Statistics).^[2]

List of Churchill Professors

1967–1994 Peter Whittle

1994–Richard Weber

References

^ Statutes and Ordinances of University of Cambridge, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/pdfs

^ Whittle, P., The Cambridge Statistical Laboratory up to 1993 (revised 2002), http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/History/2history.html

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Cambridge Professorships
1966 establishments
Mathematical chairs

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