Honor: 英国皇家学会会员

George Edward Pelham Box, born 18 October 1919 in England, was one of the most
 influential statisticians of the 20th century and a pioneer in the areas of
quality control, time series analysis, design of experiments and Bayesian
inference. Box was originally trained as a chemist, and he worked on
biochemical experiments on the effect of poison gases on small animals for the
 British Army during World War II. He needed statistical advice to analyze the  
 results of his experiments, but could not find a statistician who could give
him guidance so he taught himself statistics from available texts. After the
war, he enrolled at University College London and obtained a bachelor's degree
 in mathematics and statistics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of
London in 1953.

From 1948 to 1956, George worked as a statistician for Imperial Chemical
Industries (ICI). While at ICI, he took a leave of absence for a year and
served as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He later went to Princeton University where he served as Director of the
 Statistical Research Group.

In 1960, Box went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison to create the
Department of Statistics. He served as President of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics in 1979, was appointed Vilas Research Professor of
Statistics (the highest honor accorded to any faculty member at the University
 of Wisconsin) in 1980, and became Emeritus Professor in 1992 at the
University of Wisconsin.

Throughout his career, George Box has written numerous research papers and
published many books. One of his most important contributions to the field of
experimental design was his book, Statistics for Experimenters. Today, his
name is associated with important results in statistics such as Box-Jenkins
models, Box-Cox transformations, Box-Behnken designs and numerous others.