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Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Mathematician
Geneticist
Statistician
Astronomer
Biologist
Biostatistician

Member Of

Royal Society
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
 (1941 - )
Start Time
: 1941
National Academy of Sciences
 (1948 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
Start Time
: 1948
Royal Statistical Society

Place of Birth

London
East Finchley

Place of Death

Adelaide

Country of Citizenship

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

2/17/1890

Date of Death

7/29/1962

Instance Of

Human

Award Received

Fellow of the Royal Society
 (1929)
Point in Time
: 1929
Copley Medal
 (1955)
Award Rationale
: In recognition of his numerous and distinguished contributions to developing the theory and application of statistics for making quantitative a vast field of biology.
Point in Time
: 1955
Royal Medal
 (1938)
Point in Time
: 1938
Darwin Medal
 (1948)
Quotation
: In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the theory of natural selection, the concept of its gene complex and the evolution of dominance.
Point in Time
: 1948
Darwin–Wallace Medal
 (1958)
Point in Time
: 1958
Croonian Medal and Lecture
 (1953)
Point in Time
: 1953
Guy Medal in Gold
 (1946)
Point in Time
: 1946
Honorary Doctor of the University of Calcutta
Knight Bachelor
 (1952)
Point in Time
: 1952

Educated At

University of Cambridge
 (1909 - 1912)
Start Time
: 1909
End Time
: 1912
Harrow School
 (1904 - 1909)
Start Time
: 1904
End Time
: 1909
Gonville and Caius College

Employer

University College London
 (1933 - 1943)
Start Time
: 1933
End Time
: 1943
Rothamsted Research
 (1919 - 1933)
Start Time
: 1919
End Time
: 1933
University of Adelaide
 (1959 - 1962)
Start Time
: 1959
End Time
: 1962
University of Cambridge
 (1943 - 1959)
Start Time
: 1943
End Time
: 1959
Rugby School
 (1915 - 1919)
Start Time
: 1915
End Time
: 1919

Given Name

Ronald

Commons Gallery

Ronald Fisher

Religion or Worldview

Church of England
Anglicanism

Family Name

Fisher

Cause of Death

Colorectal Cancer
Embolism

Doctoral Advisor

James Hopwood Jeans
F. J. M. Stratton

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Nominated For

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 (1953)
Point in Time
: 1953

Name in Native Language

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Field of Work

Statistics
Genetics

Student

George W. Snedecor

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Discoverer or Inventor

43 items
Population Genetics
Practiced By
:
Geneticist
Part Of
:
Genetics
Fisher's Principle
Named After
:
Ronald Fisher
Fisher's Exact Test
Fisher's Inequality
Fisher's Geometric Model
Iris Flower Data Set
Linear Discriminant Analysis
Fisher's Equation
Fisher Information
Fisher's Method
Fisherian Runaway
Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
Fisher's Noncentral Hypergeometric Distribution
Fisher's Z-Distribution
Fisher Transformation
Fisher Consistency
F-Distribution
F-Test
Generalized Extreme Value Distribution
Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko Theorem
Fisher–Yates Shuffle
Rh Blood Group System
Behrens–Fisher Problem
Cornish–Fisher Expansion
Von Mises–Fisher Distribution
Ancillary Statistic
Fiducial Inference
Intraclass Correlation
Infinitesimal Model
Inverse Probability
Bristol–Fisher–Roach Randomised Tasting Trial
Null Hypothesis
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
Particulate Inheritance
Random Effects Model
P-Value
Relative Species Abundance
Reproductive Value
Sexy Son Hypothesis
Sufficient Statistic
Analysis of Variance
Variance

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Residence

United Kingdom
Australia
 (1959 - )
Start Time
: 1959

Noble Title

Knight Bachelor

Child

George Fisher Fisher
Joan Fisher Box

Spouse

Ruth Eileen Guinness
 (4/26/1917 - )
Start Time
: 4/26/1917
Number of Children
: 8

Place of Burial

St Peter's Cathedral
Coordinate Location
: 34.9129°S 138.5980°E

Position Held

President of the Royal Statistical Society
 (1952 - 1954)
Series Ordinal
:68
Replaces
:
Austin Bradford Hill
Replaced By
:
William Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy
Start Time
: 1952
End Time
: 1954
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