Peter Armitage St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK

Peter Armitage has a Cambridge M.A. in mathematics and a London Ph.D, in Statistics. He was a Statistician for the Medical Research Council from 1947-61, and Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1961-76. He then moved to Oxford, first as Professor of Biomathematics, later as Professor of Applied Statistics and head of the new Department of Statistics, retiring in 1990. Peter has published Sequential Medical Trials (1960, 1975), Statistical Methods in Medical Research (1971, 1987 jointly with G. Berry, 1994), Advances in Biometry (edited with H.A. David, Wiley, 1996) and numerous papers in statistical and medical journals. His research has centred around the development of methods for medical statistics, especially clinical trials. He is a Past President of the International Biometric Society, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, and Royal Statistical Society, and edited Biometrics 1980-84. He was appointed C.B.E. in 1984.

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