Robert R. Sokal

Robert R. Sokal

Robert Sokal (born January 13, 1926, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-American biostatistician and anthropologist. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of Stony Brook, New York, Sokal is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has pioneered the use of statistics in biology and co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with P. H. A. Sneath.

Notable awards and honors

* American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975, 1983
* United States National Academy of Sciences, 1987
* Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2004

Works

elected scientific bibliography (original articles)

* Sokal R.R. (1988) "Genetic, geographic, and linguistic distances in Europe." "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA" 85:1722-1726.
* Barbujani G. and Sokal R.R. (1990) "Zones of sharp genetic change in Europe are also linguistic boundaries." "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA" 87:1816-1819.
* Sokal RR, Oden NL, Wilson C. (1991) "Genetic evidence for the spread of agriculture in Europe by demic diffusion." "Nature" 351:143-145.
* Chen J, Sokal RR, Ruhlen M. (1995) "Worldwide analysis of genetic and linguistic relationships of human populations." "Human Biology" 67:595-612.
* Barbujani G, Sokal RR, Oden NL. (1995) "Indo-European origins: a computer-simulation test of five hypotheses." "American Journal of Physical Anthropology" 96:109-132.
* Sokal R.R., Oden N.L., Rosenberg M.S., Thomson B.A.(2000) "Cancer incidences in Europe related to mortalities, and ethnohistoric, genetic, and geographic distances." "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA" 97:6067-6072.

elected scientific bibliography (books)

* Sneath P.H.E. and Sokal R.R. (1963) "Principles of Numerical Taxonomy." Freeman & Co., San Francisco
* Sokal R.R. and Rohlf P.J. (1987) "Introduction to Biostatistics." Freeman & Co., San Francisco
* Sokal R.R. and Rohlf P.J. (1994) "Biometry." 3rd ed. Freeman & Co., San Francisco

ee also

*Caminalcules
* Stefan Schomann: Letzte Zuflucht Schanghai. Die Liebesgeschichte von Robert Reuven Sokal und Julie Chenchu Yang. München: Heyne 2008. ISBN 978-3-453-15260-1.

External links

* [http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/699411063?pg=vprof&mbr=1005234&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F699411063%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link National Academy Member Profile]
* [http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/people/sokalindex.html SUNY Faculty Page]


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