| Authorised form of name | Hammersley; John Michael (1920 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1920 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire |
| Date of birth | 21/03/1920 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 02/05/2004 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Statistics |
| Activity | Education:
Stratton Park preparatory school; Sedbergh School (1934); Emmanuel College, Cambridge (First Wrangler 1948)
Career:
Royal Artillery (1940-1945); graduate assistant,Oxford University group working in the Design and Analysis of Scientific Experiments, headed by David Finney; Principal Scientific Officer, AERE, Harwell (1955-1959); Senior Research Officer, Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University (1959-1969), Reader in Mathematical Sciences (1969-1987); Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford (1961-1969(, Professorial Fellow (1969-1987), Emeritus; part time consultant, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1987-2000); awarded Von Neumann Medal (1966), Gold Medal of Institute of Mathematics (1984); Polya Prize of the London Mathematical Society (1997); Rouse Ball Lecturer, Cambridge (1980).
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1976 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Relationships | Son of Guy Hammersley and Marguerite Whitehead; married (1951) Gwen Bakewell |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical memoir 2007, Volume 53, pp 163-184 by Geofrey Grimmett and Dominic Walsh
Obituary in The Independent (14 May 2004); The Times (20 May 2004) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/107124894 |
| Code | NA4212 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/GRS/7818 | Hammersley, John Michael | 1976 |
| EC/1976/20 | Hammersley, John Michael: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1972 |