| Authorised form of name | Greenwood; Major (1880 - 1949); epidemiologist and medical statistician |
| Dates | 1880 - 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Shoreditch, London, England |
| Date of birth | 09 August 1880 |
| Place of death | London, England |
| Date of death | 05/10/1949 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Marriage: Baden, Germany, Europe. |
| Occupation | epidemiologist and medical statistician |
| Research field | Medical statistics |
| Epidemiology |
| Activity | Education:
Merchant Taylors' School (1889-1896); University College, London; London Hospital
Career:
Demonstrator for Leonard Hill (FRS 1900) at the London Hospital Medical College (1905); studied under Karl Pearson (FRS 1896); appointed statistician to the Lister Institute (1910); served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, later in charge of a medical research unit at the Ministry of Munitions (1914-1918); joined the Ministry of Health, responsible for medical statistics (1919); professor of Epidemlogy and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1928-1945).
Memberships:
FRCP
Socialist Medical Association (founding member) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/05/1928 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | George Udny Yule; Leonard Hill; Charles James Martin; Stewart Ranken Douglas; Arthur Harden; Joseph Arthur Arkwright; John Charles Grant Ledingham; Almroth Edward Wright; William Bulloch; Charles Samuel Myers, Charles Scott Sherrington |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Buchanan Medal 1927 |
| Relationships | Parents: Major Greenwood (1854–1917), general practitioner, and Annie (1858–1904), daughter of P. C. Burchell MB.
Spouse: Rosa (1880–1945), daughter of Andreas Baur. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 23287
RCN R77891
RCN 23289
RCN 23290
RCN 23301
RCN 23288
RCN 23300 |
| OtherInfo | Remembered for the Greenwood formula for the variance or standard error (SE) of the Kaplan–Meier estimator of survival.
Known for Greenwood Statistic, used to evaluate clustering of events in time or locations in space. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 139-154, plate, by Lancelot Hogben |
| Code | NA703 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1928/07 | Greenwood, Major: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/69/298 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The age constitution and the future fellowship of the Royal Society' by Leon Solomon | 1945 |
| RR/54/65 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The energy output of coal miners during work and its relation to ford requirements' by K N Moss | 2 March 1935 |
| RR/54/64 | Referee's report by Edward Provan Cathcart, on a paper 'The energy output of coal miners during work and its relation to ford requirements' by K N Moss | March 1935 |
| RR/54/66 | Second referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The energy output of coal miners during work and its relation to ford requirements' by K N Moss | 12 April 1935 |
| RR/65/14 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The lung volume and its subdivisions in normal males' by E A Aslett, P D'arcy Hart and John McMichael | October 1938 |
| RR/65/146 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The posterior probability distributions of the ordinary and intraclass correlation coefficients' by Harold Jeffreys | July 1938 |
| RR/65/145 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The comparison of series of measures when the standard errors are unequal' by Harold Jeffreys | June 1938 |
| RR/67/31 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The subjective judgement of the elastic and plastic properties of soft bodies; the "differential thresholds" for viscosities and compression moduli' by George William Scott Blair and Flora Margaret Valda Coppen | 19 April 1939 |
| RR/67/32 | Second referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The subjective judgement of the elastic and plastic properties of soft bodies; the "differential thresholds" for viscosities and compression moduli' by George William Scott Blair and Flora Margaret Valda Coppen | July 1939 |
| RR/67/221 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The association of carcinogenicity and growth-inhibitory power in the polycyclic hydrocarbons and other substances' by A Haddow and A M Robinson | 1939 |
| RR/55/20 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'Statistical information and properties of sufficiency' by Maurice Stevenson Bartlett | November 1935 |
| NLB/70/926 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Major Greenwood | 8 November 1927 |
| NLB/71/432 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. G. [Major] Greenwood, FRS | 14 May 1928 |
| RR/65/119 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'Determination of lung volume: a simple constant volume modification of Christie’s method' by F J C Herrald and John McMichael | 1938 |
| MDA/C/6/1 | Papers relating to an award from the Darwin Research Fund to Charles Sutherland Elton | 1931-1942 |
| RR/12/125 | Referee's report by John Gray McKendrick, on a paper 'On the constitution and mode of formation of "food vacuoles" in infusoria, as illustrated by the history of the processes of digestion in Carchesium polypinum' by Major Greenwood | 28 December 1893 |
| RR/12/126 | Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the constitution and mode of formation of "food vacuoles" in infusoria, as illustrated by the history of the processes of digestion in Carchesium polypinum' by Major Greenwood | 10 January 1894 |
| RR/46/3 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'Contributions to the mathematical theory of epidemics. II. —The problem of endemicity' by William Ogilvy Kermack and A G McKendrick | 20 April 1932 |
| RR/68/22 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The starling (Sturnus ?ulgaris L.) and foot-and-mouth disease' by W A Bullough | 1 December 1941 |
| RR/38/127 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The yearly variations in plague in India in relation to climate: Forecasting epidemics' by Leonard James Rogers | 1928 |
| RR/49/2 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'On the interaction between several species of hosts and parasites' by V A Bailey | [May 1933] |
| RR/67/10 | Referee's report by Major Greenwood, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons. V' by G M Badger, James Wilfred Cook, C L Hewett, Ernest Laurence Kennaway, N M Kennaway, R H Martin and A M Robinson | 1 September 1940 |