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Lord Woolton: The man who used statistics (and more) to feed a nation at war
Author(s) -
Tarran Brian
Publication year - 2017
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.1740-9713.2017.01036.x
Subject(s) - operations research , history , law , political science , mathematics
As Minister of Food during the Second World War, Lord Woolton kept Britain from starving – but in the archives of the Royal Statistical Society, he is remembered best for making statisticians part of the solution to the problems he faced. By Brian Tarran