J. F. C. Kingman

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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:award gptkb:Guy_Medal_in_Gold
gptkb:Guy_Medal_in_Silver
gptkb:Royal_Society_Fellowship
gptkb:Sylvester_Medal
Knighthood
gptkbp:birthDate 1939-08-28
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Beckenham,_Kent,_England
gptkbp:category gptkb:Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Knights_Bachelor
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
Probability theorists
gptkbp:children gptkb:Tom_Kingman
gptkb:Helen_Kingman
gptkb:Mark_Kingman
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Peter_Whittle
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Stochastic_Processes_and_their_Applications
gptkb:Journal_of_the_London_Mathematical_Society
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:probability_theory
population genetics
stochastic processes
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:John_Frank_Charles_Kingman
gptkbp:honorificPrefix gptkb:FRS
Sir
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label J. F. C. Kingman
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Kingman’s_Poisson_process
gptkb:Kingman's_coalescent
gptkb:Kingman’s_paintbox_process
gptkb:Kingman’s_subadditive_ergodic_theorem
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Peter_Donnelly
gptkb:David_Aldous
gptkb:John_Biggins
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:position Professor at University of Cambridge
Professor at University of Oxford
Professor at University of Bristol
Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Mathematics_of_Genetic_Diversity_(book)
gptkb:On_the_genealogy_of_large_populations_(paper)
gptkb:Poisson_Processes_(book)
gptkb:The_coalescent_(paper)
gptkbp:spouse Valerie Cromwell
gptkbp:thesisTitle Random walks and random partitions
gptkbp:thesisYear 1964
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Poisson_Processes_(book)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6