Donald Mainland FRSE FRSC (1902-1985) was a Scots-born medical statistician who became a Professor at the New York University.[1] He is remembered for his series of Mainland's Notes.
Life
editHe was born in Edinburgh in 1902, the son of William Mainland, a confectioner running a shop at 140 St Stephen Street in the Stockbridge area.[2]
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB, ChB. In 1927, he won the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize in Anatomy for his essay, “The pluriovular follicle, with special reference to its occurrence in the ferret”.[3] And in 1931, Edinburgh University awarded him a DSc.[4] He was a lecturer in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938. His proposers were Ernest Cruickshank, James Couper Brash, Alfred Joseph Clark and Ivan De Burgh Daly. In 1954, he was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] He resigned from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1965.[6]
In 1949, he emigrated to Nova Scotia to take on the role of Professor of Anatomy at Dalhousie University. His personality clashed with his junior colleague, Dr Richard Holbourne Saunders (who then replaced him) and one year later he was appointed Professor of Biostatics in the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, United States. In 1953, he moved to the Department of Medical Statistics as its Chairman.[7]
Publications
edit- Mainland's Notes from a Laboratory of Medical Statistics
- Mainland's Statistical Ward Rounds
- Mainland's Notes on Biometry in Medical Research
- Mainland's Elementary Medical Statistics' (1952)
- Statistical Tables for Use in Binomial Samples
References
edit- ^ Altman, Douglas G. (2005). "Mainland, Donald". Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. doi:10.1002/0470011815.b2a17091. ISBN 9780470849071.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1902-3
- ^ Mainland, Donald (1927). "The pluriovular follicle, with special reference to its occurrence in the ferret".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Mainland, Donald (1931). "The application of quantitative methods to the study of early development and ovarian structure in mammals".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "View/Search Fellows of the ASA". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ Lives of Dalhousie University 1925-1980. P. Waite
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