Ronald A. Fisher

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academic biologist eugenicist evolutionary biologist geneticist human mathematician statistician

Ronald A. Fisher was a pioneering British statistician and geneticist whose work helped found modern statistical science and unify Mendelian genetics with Darwinian evolution.

Aliases (2)

Ronald Fisher ×3
Ronald Aylmer Fisher ×1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → biologist → eugenicist → evolutionary biologist → geneticist → human → mathematician → statistician →
academicDegree	degree in mathematics →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Fellow of the Royal Society → Guy Medal in Gold →
causeOfDeath	cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1890-02-17 →
dateOfDeath	1962-07-29 →
educatedAt	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
employer	Rothamsted Experimental Station → University of Adelaide → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
familyName	Fisher →
fieldOfWork	eugenics → evolutionary biology → experimental design → genetics → statistics →
fullName	Ronald Aylmer Fisher →
givenName	Ronald →
influenced	modern evolutionary synthesis → modern statistics → population genetics →
knownFor	F-distribution → F-test → Fisher information → Fisher's exact test → Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection → Fisher's linear discriminant → analysis of variance → design of experiments → foundations of modern statistical science → maximum likelihood estimation → randomization in experiments → sufficient statistics → unifying Mendelian genetics with Darwinian evolution →
memberOf	Royal Society →
name	Ronald A. Fisher →
nationality	British →
notableWork	Statistical Methods for Research Workers → The Design of Experiments → The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection →
numberOfChildren	8 →
placeOfBirth	East Finchley, London, England →
placeOfDeath	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia →
positionHeld	Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London → Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge → Research statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station →
religion	Anglicanism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Eileen Guinness →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis ("Ronald Fisher") → G. Ledyard Stebbins → modern evolutionary synthesis →	influencedBy
Sewall Wright → William Bateson ("Ronald Fisher") →	influenced
Ronald A. Fisher ("Ronald Aylmer Fisher") →	fullName
Chigwell School ("Ronald Fisher") →	hasAlumnus
Ronald A. Fisher →	name
Darwin–Wallace Medal →	notableRecipient