# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-w-f-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:09:57.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-w-f-edwards"
name: "A. W. F. Edwards"
slug: "a-w-f-edwards"
description: "Anthony William Fairbank Edwards, FRS is a British statistician, geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Edwards is regarded as one of Britain's most distinguished geneticists, and as one of the most influential mathematical geneticists in history. He is the son of the surgeon Harold C. Edwards, and brother of medical geneticist John H. Edwards. Edwards has sometimes been called \"Fisher's Edwards\" to distinguish him from his brother, because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher. In 1963 and 1964, Edwards, along with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, introduced novel methods for computing evolutionary trees from genetical data."
tagline: "British statistician and geneticist"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1935-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.563141333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "انتونى ادواردز (عالم وراثه من المملكه المتحده)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump