Finding Aid for the Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers LSC.0370
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 23.
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Title: Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers
Creator:
Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0370
Physical Description:
29.0 Linear Feet
(29 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1986
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and Russian.
Portions of collection unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source and date of receipt unknown.
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).
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232945
[Identification of item], Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers (Collection 370). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection consists of materials relating to the work of UCLA biomathematician Wilfrid Joseph Dixon, including Russian language
biomathematics and statistics texts.
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