The RSS is seeking nominations for its medals and prizes to be awarded
in 2001.

The criteria for the 2001 awards are as follows:

Guy Medals

Named after the distinguished statistician, William Guy FRS, the Guy
medals are intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their
scientific aspects, as well as to promote the application of numbers to
the solution of important problems in all the relations of life in which
the numerical method can be employed, with a view as far as possible to
determining the laws which regulate them.

There are three medals in gold, silver and bronze.  The Guy Medal in
Gold is normally awarded every three years and is next due to be awarded
in 2002.  The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded every year.

The Silver Medal may be awarded to any fellow or, in exceptional cases,
jointly to two or more fellows in respect of a paper or papers of
special merit communicated to the Society at its Ordinary Meetings.  A
Silver Medal may also be awarded to any fellow or jointly to two or more
fellows in respect of a paper or papers published in any of the journals
of the Society.  General contributions to statistics may also be taken
into account.  Two nominations have been carried forward from last year.

The Bronze Medal may be awarded to fellows, or to non-fellows who are
members of a section or a local group, in respect of a paper or papers
read to a section or local group or at any conference run by the
Society, its sections or groups, or published in any of the Society's
journals, preference being given to people under the age of 35.
Exceptionally two or more authors of a paper or papers may be considered
for the award provided they are members of sections or local groups.  It
should be noted that no nominations for the bronze medal have been
carried forward from previous years.

Chambers Medal

Named after Sir Paul Chambers, a former president of the Society and
chairman of ICI, this gold medal is awarded once every three years to a
fellow of the Society for outstanding services to the Society.  All
fellows are eligible for nomination whether or not they have held any
honorary office in the Society.  No nominations have been carried
forward from previous years.

Greenfield Industrial Medal

This medal, founded in 1991, may be awarded for contributions to the
effective application of statistical methods to the manufacturing and
allied industries, in areas such as total quality management, manpower
and resource management, production control, purchasing and stock
control, sales forecasting.  The medal is awarded to individuals but
nominations may be from fellows, non-fellows or organisations.  They may
be supported by published papers and/or by individual reports for which
publication, in full or in part is not restricted.

Research Prize

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, a research prize of £500
is awarded biennially.  The prize is awarded for an outstanding original
contribution to statistical theory or application as shown in work
published in open literature.

It is intended for research workers near the beginning of their research
career.  Eligible candidates may be of any age, but must have been
research workers for not more than seven years (excluding any period out
of employment) prior to 1 September 2000 and have been fellows of the
Society for at least two years prior to 1 September 2000.  Although the
prize is not restricted to post-doctoral candidates, in such cases the
seven year time-period would normally be deemed to have started at the
commencement of the candidate's PhD studies.

No nominations have been carried forward from previous years.

Honorary Fellowship

Honorary fellowships are awarded in order for the Society to recognise
the contribution of individuals of great eminence who, while working in
fields related to statistics, are not themselves members of the
statistical profession.  Honorary fellowship is open to all
nationalities.


Nominations

The Honours Committee would like to receive as broad a range of
nominations as possible to ensure that the awards are made to those who
best meet the criteria.

The deadline for submission of nominations is 18 September.

An information pack on nominations for all awards is available from the
Administrative Officer Paul Gentry or can be viewed on the Society's
website www.rss.org.uk/about/honpack.html .

Paul Gentry
Administrative Officer
Royal Statistical Society
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020 7638 8998



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