Abraham Manie Adelstein
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'''Abraham Manie Adelstein'' or ''Abe Adelstein''' ([[28 March]] [[1916]] – [[18 October]] [[1992]]) was a [[South Africa]]n born doctor who became the [[United Kingdom]]'s Chief Medical [[Statistician]].
==Career==
Abe was the fourth of five children (four boys and one girl) of Nathan Adelstein, a miller, and Rosie Cohen, [[Jew]]ish immigrants from [[Latvia]] to [[South Africa]].<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref>
After graduating from the [[University of Witwatersrand]] and doing military service, Dr. Adelstein worked as a Health Officer (research and medical statistics) at [[South African Railways]], [[1947]]-[[1961|61]]. He spent 1951-3 studying at the [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]]. He returned to South African Railways as the Director of Research and Medical Statistics.
Moving to [[England]] in 1961, he became
* Senior Lecturer at the [[University of Manchester]], 1961-[[1967|67]],
* medical statistician at the [[Office of Population Censuses and Surveys]] in 1967
* [[Chief Medical Statistician]] in [[1975]] (among his staff was [[John Fox (statistician)|John Fox]], who later held this post).
* Visiting Professor at the [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] after retiring in [[1981]], until [[1984]].
[[David Adelstein]], one of his sons, was an active student politician at [[London School of Economics|L.S.E.]] during the 1960's; he was President of [[LSE Students' Union]] during the famous protests in 1967. Both father and son were active politically on the left-wing and in [[anti-Apartheid]] politics.
==Honours==
* Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians]], [[1977]]
* [[Donald Reid Medal]], [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]], [[1979]]
* Bisset Hawkins Medal, Royal College of Physicians, [[1982]]
* Fellow, Faculty of Public Health Medicine
== References ==
* Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]
* [[Who's Who (UK)|Who was Who]]
* Frank Whitehead "Abraham Manie Adelstein, 1916-92" Journal of the [[Royal Statistical Society]]. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 156, No. 2. (1993), pp. 316-318.
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