Edmund Alfred Cornish
Edmund Alfred Cornish DSc, FAA was one of Australia's eminent mathematicians and statisticians. He was appointed an List of [Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science|Foundation Fellow] of the Australian Academy of Science. He worked as the Officer-in-charge in Mathematical Statistics section of Commonwealth Scientific and [Industrial Research Organisation] in Adelaide from 1941. In 1954 he became the Chief of this division and served till his death in 1973.