- Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett
Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett (1902 - 1985), physicist and statistician, born in London. Tippett graduated in physics in the early 1920s at
Imperial College . He studied for his MSc in statistics under ProfessorKarl Pearson at theGalton Laboratory ,University College London andR. A. Fisher at Rothamsted. He spent his entire career, 1925 to 1965, on the staff of theShirley Institute ,Manchester becoming in 1952 one of the first Assistant Directors. Pioneered withR.A. Fisher andEmil Gumbel theextreme value theory . TheFisher-Tippett distribution is named after his achievements.At the Shirley Institute he applied statistics to the problem of yarn breakage rates in weaving. In the late 1920s and 1930s he became known for his 'snap-reading' method of observation which lead to improved production efficiency and operative utilization. As a result of his work in the textile industry he was awarded the
Shewart Medal of theAmerican Society for Quality Control .In 1965 he retired to
St. Austell and in this period became anUNIDO consultant being active inIndia He died in 1985 after being hit by a van whilst walking from his home to the
St. Austell Choral Society to sing in theSt. Matthew Passion .Awards
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Warner Medal of theTextile Institute
*Guy Medal in Silver of theRoyal Statistical Society
*Honorary MScUMIST
*President of theManchester Statistical Society
*President of theRoyal Statistical Society , 1965Books
*"Random Sampling Numbers", CUP, London, 1927
*"Methods of Statistics", Williams & Norgate Ltd., London, 1931, 1948, 1952
*"Statistical Methods for Textile Technologists", by T. Murphy, K. P. Norris, L. H. C. Tippett, Textile Institute, Manchester, 1960, 1963, 1973, 1979
*"A Portrait of the Lancashire Textile Industry", OUP, London 1969References
* H. E. Daniels, A Tribute to L.H.C. Tippett, "
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society . Series A (General)", Vol. 145, No. 2 (1986), pp. 261-262.
* J. E. Ford, L.H.C. Tippett, 1902-1985, "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society . Series A (General)", Vol. 149, No. 1 (1986), p. 44. (obituary)
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