Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician.
[1] Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972.
[2] After a year in India as a lecturer in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, where she worked from 1973 to 1977.
[2] At that time, as she writes, "funds began drying up in big physics",[2] so she moved to the University of Salford, where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990.
[4] She has won the Catherine Richards Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications twice, in 2002 for a paper on paradoxes in probability theory and in 2010 for her work providing a formula for the health effects of obesity, as a function of body mass index.