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Life Summary

Name	Peter Gavin Hall
Born	20 November, 1951 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	9 January, 2016 (aged 64) Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (leukemia)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Payne-Scott, Ruby Violet (mother)
Education *	Oatley West Public School (Sydney) (student, 1957-1963) Sydney Technical High School (student, 1964-1969) University of Sydney (student, 1970-1973) Australian National University (student, 1974-1974) Oxford University (student, 1975-1976)
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1977-1978) Victoria, Australia mathematician (1977-1978) Victoria, Australia academic (1978-2006) Australian Capital Territory, Australia mathematician (1978-2076) Australian Capital Territory, Australia statistician (1978-2006) Australian Capital Territory, Australia academic (2006-2016) Victoria, Australia mathematician (2006-2016) Victoria, Australia statistician (2006-2016) Victoria, Australia
Awards	Presidents' Award (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) (recipient, 1989) Guy Medal in Silver (Royal Statistical Society, UK) (recipient, 2011) Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 2013)
Legacies *	Peter Hall Building (University of Melbourne) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian Academy of Science (fellow, 1987-2016) Royal Society of London (UK) (fellow, 2000-2016) Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland) (corresponding fellow, 2002-2016) National Academy of Sciences (US) (foreign associate, 2013-2016) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow, 2015-2016)
Workplaces *	University of Melbourne (mathematics) (academic, 1977-1978) Australian National University (statistics) (academic, 1978-2006) University of Melbourne (statistics) (academic, 2006-2016)

* Dates are approximate