Karl Pearson - Resume of Academic Career

Resume of Academic Career

  • Third Wrangler in Mathematics Tripos, Cambridge University, 1879
  • Studied medieval and sixteenth-century German literature, Berlin and Heidelberg Universities, 1879–1880
  • Read law, called to the Bar by Inner Temple, 1881
  • Delivered lectures on mathematics, philosophy and German literature at societies and clubs devoted to adult education
  • Deputised for the Professor of Mathematics, King's College London, 1881, and for the Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1883
  • Formed the Men and Women's Club, with some others, to discuss equality between the sexes
  • Appointed to Goldsmid Chair of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University College London, 1884
  • Appointed Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, 1891
  • Collaborated with Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, in biometry and evolutionary theory, 1891–1906
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1896
  • Founded journal Biometrika with Weldon and Francis Galton founder of the School of Eugenics at University College London, 1901
  • Appointed first Galton Professor of Eugenics, University College London, 1911
  • Formed Department of Applied Statistics incorporating the Biometric Laboratory and Galton Laboratory, University College London
  • Founded journal Annals of Eugenics, 1925
  • Died April 27, 1936

Read more about this topic:  Karl Pearson

Famous quotes containing the words resume, academic and/or career:

    If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.
    Arlie Hochschild (20th century)