Guy Medals in Gold

The Guy Medal in Gold is the Society’s lifetime achievement award given to a fellow of the Society judged to have merited distinction by innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics. 

The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded every two years. It will be awarded in 2028.  

Nominations open in 2027

• Find out about recent recipients

  2026 recipient: Peter McCullagh

  Peter has a long list of pivotal contributions to statistical theory, which is both broad in range and exceptional in depth, including developing group-theoretical foundations and tensor methods for statistical modelling.
  
  
  
  
  Previous recipients
  2024: Peter Diggle 
  2022: Nancy Reid 
  2020: David Spiegelhalter 
  2019: Stephen Buckland