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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher. Born: February 17 1890 Died: July 29 1962. Childhood. Born February 17 1980 Katie Heath and George Fisher Youngest of 8 kids Twin brother was stillborn Extreme myopia. Education. Concentrated in mathematics Harrow School at 14

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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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

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

  3. Education • 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

  4. Early Life • 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

  5. Work at Rothamsted • 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)

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

  7. Awards • 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

  8. Publications • 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) • The Theory of Inbreeding (1949) • Contributions to Mathematical Statistics (1950) • Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (1956) • http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/special//fisher/bibliog.html

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

  10. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisherhttp://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/special//fisher/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Fisher.htmlhttp://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/rafreader.htm

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