Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers
- Dates:
- 1940-1986
- Creators:
- Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915
- Extent:
- 29.0 Linear Feet (29 cartons)
- Language:
- Materials are in English and Russian.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers (Collection 370). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of materials relating to the work of UCLA biomathematician Wilfrid Joseph Dixon, including Russian language biomathematics and statistics texts.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dixon was born in 1915 in Portland, Oregon; BA, Oregon State College, 1938; MA, University of Wisconsin, 1939; Ph.D., Princeton, 1944; assistant professor of mathematics (1942-44, 1945-46), University of Oklahoma; associate professor, then professor of mathematics (1946-55), University of Oregon; in 1955 became professor of preventive medicine, UCLA; served as chairman of the department of biomathematics (1967-74), wrote Introduction to statistical analysis, 3rd edition (with F.J. Massey, 1969); assoc. editor of Biometrics (1955-65) and Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1955-58).
- Acquisition information:
- Source and date of receipt unknown.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-23 14:39:23 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Portions of collection unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers (Collection 370). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988