Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
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Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran (1917-1988)
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| Born |
14 July 1917 King's Cross, Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 19 September 1988 (aged 71) Canberra, Australia |
| Residence | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions |
CSIRO Oxford University ANU |
| Alma mater |
University of Sydney University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Abram Besicovitch |
| Doctoral students |
Warren Ewens Charles E. M. Pearce Edward J. Hannan and about 20 others |
| Known for | Population genetics |
| Notable awards | Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (1963), Fellow of the Royal Society |
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran FRS (14 July 1917 – 19 September 1988), commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics.
Moran was born in Sydney and was the only child of Herbert Michael Moran (b. 1885 in Sydney, d. 1945 in Cambridge UK), a prominent surgeon and captain of the first Wallabies, and Eva Mann (b. 1887 in Sydney, d. 1977 in Sydney). Patrick did have five other siblings, but they all died at or shortly after birth. He completed his high school studies at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, in three and a half years instead of the normal five-year course. At age 16, in 1934, he commenced study at the University of Sydney where he studied chemistry, zoology, maths and physics, graduating with first class honours in mathematics in 1937. Following graduation he went to study at Cambridge University from 1937 to 1939, his supervisors noted that he was not a good mathematician and the outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies. He graduated with an MA (by proxy) from St John's College, Cambridge, on 22 January 1943 and continued his studies there from 1945 to 1946. He was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford University, on 3 December 1946. He was awarded an MA, from Oxford University, by incorporation in 1947.
During the war Moran worked in rocket development in the Ministry of Supply and later at the External Ballistics Laboratory in Cambridge. In late 1943 he joined the Australian Scientific Liaison Office (ASLO), run by the CSIRO. He worked on applied physics including vision, camouflage, army signals, quality control, road research, infra-red detection, metrology, UHF radio propagation, general radar, bomb-fragmentation, rockets, asdics and on operational research. He also wrote some papers on the Hausdorff measure during the War.
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