Frank Duckworth, a former Fylde schoolboy whose mathematical knowledge helped to revolutionise rain-affected cricket, has died aged 84.
The Lytham-born statistician co-created the Duckworth-Lewis method, a model to recalculate scores when limited-over matches were cut short by bad weather, with fellow Lancastrian Tony Lewis. From the former King Edward VII School, now AKS, Duckworth graduated from the University of Liverpool and spent his entire career working in the nuclear industry. He was originally employed as a metallurgist and found he had an ability to extract useful information from masses of numerical measurements.
In the citation, it said he had been as important to the nuclear industry as he had been to cricket: 'He came to realise the importance of statistics, not just to ensure reactor safety but also to assure the public that the reactors are safe. 'At that time, there were no statisticians working at the laboratories, so he set about making himself into a statistician.
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