Robert Nicholas Curnow

{{short description|British statistician}}

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Robert Nicholas Curnow was born in 1933. In 1992, Curnow was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver.

In 1997 Curnow was appointed President of the Royal Statistical Society. He served until 1999. During his term of office, Curnow contributed to the Green Paper "Statistics: a matter of trust" (Treasury, 1998a) and "Your right to know" (Treasury, 1998b).{{Cite book |title=Applied Statistics at the University of Reading |isbn=0704911272 }}{{Cite book |last=Curnow |first=Robert N. |url=https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/9537/ |title=Applied statistics at the University of Reading: the first forty years |date=2006 |publisher=University of Reading |isbn=978-0-7049-1127-7}}

Curnow is co-author of 146 publications. His last was “How phenotypic matching based on neutral mating cues enables speciation in locally adapted populations” in November 2019.{{Cite web |title=Robert Nicholas Curnow University of Reading Department of Mathematics and Statistics Ph.D. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Curnow-2}}{{Cite web |last=Reading |first=The University of |title=Items where Author is "Curnow, Professor Robert" - CentAUR |url=https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/99000050.default.html |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=centaur.reading.ac.uk}}{{Cite journal |last=Curnow |first=Robert N. |date=1999 |title=Unfathomable Nature and Government Policy |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9884.00205 |journal= Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician)|language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=463–476 |doi=10.1111/1467-9884.00205 |issn=0039-0526|url-access=subscription }}