Person
Belz, Maurice Henry (1897 - 1975)
- Born
- 1 February 1897
Auburn, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 28 March 1975
Parkville, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Statistician and Mathematician
Summary
Maurice Belz headed the first autonomous department of statistics in Australia at the University of Melbourne (1948) and was the foundation Professor of Statistics there (1955-1963). Many of the initial generation of Australia's professional statisticians were either trained or taught in Belz's department, which ran a course for graduates from science and industry.
Details
Born Auburn, New South Wales, 1 February 1897. Died Melbourne, 28 March 1975. Educated Universities of Sydney (BSc 1918) and Cambridge (MSc 1922). Lecturer in mathematics, University of Melbourne 1923-28; senior lecturer 1928-32; research into the application of mathematics to economics, London School of Economics and University of Oslo 1933-36; senior lecturer in mathematical economics, faculty of commerce, University of Melbourne 1937-47; associate professor of mathematical statistics 1948-54; professor of statistics 1955-63. President, French-Australian Association of Victoria 1944-70. Légion d'honneur 1954.
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Maurice Henry Belz - Records, 1914 - 1975; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Laby, Betty, 'Belz, Maurice Henry (1897-1975), mathematical statistician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 160-161. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130189b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Lancaster, H. O., 'Statistical Society of New South Wales', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 99-109. Details
- Williams, E. J., 'Obituary: Maurice H. Belz (1897-1975)', Australian Journal of Statistics, 17 (1) (1975), 56-57. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536687. Details
- 'Belz, Maurice Henry (1897-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465469. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Belz, Maurice Henry', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000222p.htm. Details
See also
- Gani, J., 'Some aspects in the development of statistics in Australia', Australian Journal of Statistics, 18 (1/2) (1976), 1-20. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 12 February 2018
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