This is awarded for his monumental work 75 years ago that revolutionised statistical thinking.
In 1945, he published a paper in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society.
He demonstrated three fundamental results that paved the way for the modern field of statistics and provided statistical tools heavily used in science today.
He served as the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute.
He was awarded the title of Padma Bhushan by the Indian Government (1968) and Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
The first International Prize in Statistics was awarded in 2017 to David R Cox.