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Philip Woodward on Philip Woodward: Radar, clocks and coincidences
Author(s) -
Woodward Philip
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00544.x
Subject(s) - statistician , curiosity , editorial board , radar , string (physics) , philosophy , art history , computer science , operations research , history , library science , psychology , telecommunications , physics , mathematics , theoretical physics , statistics , social psychology
What happens when you Google your own name? We have all done it in moments of passing curiosity or vanity, and for most of us it produces little. But for Philip Woodward , statistician and editorial board member of this magazine, it turned up not just a namesake but a whole string of coincidences and another statistician – one whose life and achievements deserve to be chronicled here.