Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890-1962) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 72
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Something wrong?Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".
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Inverforth House, North End Way NW3, where Fisher lived from 1896 to 1904. He is commemorated with a blue plaque.
On graduating from Cambridge University, 1912
The peacock tail in flight, the classic example of a Fisherian runaway
Rothamsted Research
Memorial plaque over his remains, lectern-side aisle of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
The Sir Ronald Fisher window (now removed) in the dining hall of Caius College, Cambridge, representing a Latin square, discussed by Fisher in The Design of ExperimentsAwards
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics". In genetics, Fisher was the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin, as his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis. For his contributions to biology, Richard Dawkins declared Fisher to be the greatest of Darwin's successors. He is also considered one of the founding fathers of Neo-Darwinism. According to statistician Jeffrey T. Leek, Fisher is the most influential scientist of all time on the basis of the number of citations of his contributions.
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