The Society has named the recipients of its 2010 Honours and Awards.

Iain M Johnstone is awarded the Guy Medal in Silver for his "insightful, profound, and significant work on non-parametric and multivariate statistics", including his papers read before the Society:

• `Wavelet shrinkage: asymptopia?’ ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 57 (1995), 301-369, with DL Donoho, G Kerkyacharian, and D Picard)
  
• `Wavelet deconvolution in a periodic setting’ (J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 66 (2004), 547-573, discussion and rejoinder, 657-652, with G Kerkyacharian, D Picard and M Raimondo).

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos is awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze  for his "innovative work on Monte Carlo probabilistic inference for diffusion processes", including his paper read before the Society:

• `Exact and computationally efficient likelihood-based inference for discretely observed diffusions’ ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 68 (2006), 1-25, with A Beskos, GO Roberts, and P Fearnhead)
  
• `Particle filters for partially observed diffusions’ ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 70 (2008), 755-777, with P Fearnhead, and GO Roberts).

Douglas C Montgomery is awarded the Greenfield Medal for his contributions to "the effective industrial application of statistical methods, particularly process monitoring and optimisation, quality improvement and design and analysis of experiments, and for his influential and accessible expository work".

Sheila Bird is awarded the Chambers Medal for outstanding services to the Society. In particular, as the Society’s theme director for external affairs, she has engaged very effectively with the media and with parliamentarians and government bodies to promote both understanding of statistics and best practice in using statistics. In addition, she established the Society’s statistical excellence in journalism awards and the statistical seminars for journalists, both of which are held in very high esteem.

Janet Darbyshire CBE is awarded an Honorary Fellowship for her "use, interpretation and presentation of statistics in the world of clinical trials, particularly in the treatment of tuberculosis and the prevention and treatment of HIV, and also for the emphasis she has given to the need for clear statistical thinking for a problem and the importance of having statisticians involved in all projects".

The honours will be presented at the Society's AGM and Award Ceremony on Wednesday 30 June in London.