Violet Cane
Violet Rosina Cane | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 January 1916 |
| Died | 27 June 2008 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Doctoral students | Ewart Thomas |
Violet Rosina Cane (31 January 1916 – 27 June 2008) was a Cambridge-educated statistician who was the first woman appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manchester. She is known for her work in classical statistics and stochastic processes.[1]
Biography
Cane was born in Camberwell, London, the daughter of Tubal George Cane and Anne Louisa (Lansdell) Cane.[1]
- 1938: Graduated from Newnham College
- 1942-45: Joined the Foreign Office and worked at Bletchley Park
- 1947: Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
- 1948: Awarded a diploma in mathematical statistics from Cambridge, and appointed statistician to the MRC Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge.
- 1957: Elected Fellow of Newnham College
- 1959: Founding member of the Experimental Psychology Society
- 1960: Appointed University Lecturer in the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge.
- 1971: Appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at University of Manchester
She retired from Manchester in 1981. She has been described as "one of the biggest names in the subject [of mathematics]" at Manchester in the 20th century.[2]
Selected publications
- 1959. "Behaviour Sequences as Semi-Markov Chains," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
References
- ^ a b Lorenzo-Arribas, Altea; Gandy, Rob; Thomas, Ewart; Startup, Richard (2022). "Violet Rosina Cane, 1916–2008". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 185 (4): 2278. doi:10.1111/rssa.12787.
- ^ "The University of Manchester offers new scholarships in Mathematics to improve access to postgraduate study". Eurekalert.org. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Retrieved 2025-12-28.