Pat Moran (statistician)
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran FRS , commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics.
Moran was born in Sydney and was the only child of Herbert Michael Moran , a prominent surgeon and captain of the first Wallabies, and Eva Mann . Patrick did have five other siblings, but they all died at or shortly after birth. He completed his high school studies at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, in three and a half years instead of the normal fiveyear course. At age 16, in 1934, he commenced study at the University of Sydney where he studied chemistry, zoology, maths and physics, graduating with first class honours in mathematics in 1937. Following graduation he went to study at Cambridge University from 1937 to 1939, his supervisors noted that he was not a good mathematician and the outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies. He graduated with an MA from St Johns College, Cambridge, onJanuary 1943 and continued his studies there from 1945 to 1946. He was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford University, onDecember 1946. He was awarded an MA, from Oxford University,
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