Abraham Manie Adelstein 2739095 221510535 2008-06-24T20:41:28Z Kwib 4518957 /* References */ '''Abraham Manie Adelstein'' or ''Abe Adelstein''' ([[28 March]] [[1916]] &ndash; [[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. {{reflist}} {{SouthAfrica-bio-stub}} {{UK-med-bio-stub}} {{UK-mathematician-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Adelstein, A M}} [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:1992 deaths]] [[Category:Statisticians]] [[Category:English statisticians]] [[Category:British civil servants]] [[Category:English mathematicians]] [[Category:Jewish scientists]] [[Category:South African Jews]] [[Category:South African people]] [[Category:English Jews]] [[Category:South African mathematicians]] [[Category:20th century mathematicians]] [[Category:Academics of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] [[Category:British mathematicians]] [[Category:Donald Reid Medalists]] [[ht:Abraham Manie Adelstein]]