Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher Born February 17 1890

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher Born: February 17 1890 Died: July 29 1962

Childhood n n n Born February 17 1980 Katie Heath and George Fisher Youngest of 8 kids Twin brother was stillborn Extreme myopia

Education n n n Concentrated in mathematics Harrow School at 14 Received special instruction at night Did work without pen and paper Received the Neeld Medal Scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Became a wrangler in 1912

Early Life n n n Work on a farm in Canada Statistician for Mercantile and General Investment Company Tried to enlist in the Army Teacher at public schools Married Ruth Eileen in 1917

Work at Rothamsted n n n n Partitioned sub-experiments Maximum likelihood Analysis of variance Breeding experiments On the Dominance Ratio (1922) Statistical Methods for Research Workers (1925) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

Professorships n n n 1933 Galton Professor at University College, London 1943 Arthur Balfour professor of genetics at the University of Cambridge 1959 University of Adelaide

Awards n n n 1929 Fellow of the Royal Society 1938 Royal Medal of the Society 1948 Darwin Medal of the Society 1952 Knighted 1955 Copley Medal of the Royal Society

Publications n n n n Statistical Methods for Research Workers (1925) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) The Design of Experiments (1935) Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research (1938) Theory of Inbreeding (1949) Contributions to Mathematical Statistics (1950) Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (1956) http: //digital. library. adelaide. edu. au/coll/special//fisher/b ibliog. html

Summery n n Made breakthroughs in experimental design Married Mendelian and Darwinian ideas Was a statistician as well as a geneticist Proponent of eugenics

Bibliography n http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher http: //digital. library. adelaide. edu. au/coll/s pecial//fisher/ http: //www-groups. dcs. stand. ac. uk/~history/Biographies/Fisher. htm l http: //www. economics. soton. ac. uk/staff/al drich/fisherguide/rafreader. htm