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He made significant contributions to the understanding of <a href="/people/569/000024497/">Darwin</a>'s theory of natural selection, and many of the concepts Fisher explored in his early agricultural research and his later studies of how genes determine different traits were applicable across numerous other sciences. He introduced the concept of the fiducial interval, wrote extensively on the theory of estimation and analysis of variance and covariance, and his <i>Statistical Methods for Research Workers</i> became the fundamental text for research students through most of the Twentieth Century. His daughter, Joan Fisher, married statistician <a href="">(broken link, George Box)</a> and wrote her father's biography.<p><b>Father:</b> George Fisher (auctioneer)<br><b>Mother:</b> Katherine Heath Fisher ("Katie", d. 1904 peritonitis)<br><b>Brother:</b> Geoffrey Fisher (b. 1876)<br><b>Sister:</b> Evelyn Fisher (b. 1877)<br><b>Brother:</b> Alan Fisher (b. 1878, d. infancy)<br><b>Wife:</b> Ruth Eileen Gratton Guinness Fisher (b. circa 1901, m. 26-Apr-1917, seven daughters, two sons)<br><b>Son:</b> George Fisher (b. 1919, d. 1943 World War II)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Joan Fisher Box (author)<br><p> High School: <a href="/edu/861/000088597/">Harrow School, Middlesex, England</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/214/000081968/">Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge University (1909)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/214/000081968/">BA Astronomy, Cambridge University (1912)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/904/000104592/">Mathematics and Physics, Rugby School, Warwickshire, England (1915-19)</a><br> Scholar: Statistician, Rothamsted Agricultural Experiment Station (1919-33)<br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/641/000082395/">Statistics, Iowa State University (1931, 36)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/921/000104609/">Eugenics, University College London (1933-43)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/214/000081968/">Genetics, Cambridge University (1943-57)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/867/000068663/">Mathematical Statistics, University of Adelaide (1959-62)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/968/000100668/">Royal Medal</a> 1938<br> <u>RSS Guy Medal in Gold</u> 1946<br> <a href="/honors/028/000111692/">Darwin Medal</a> 1948<br> <a href="/honors/853/000052697/">Knight of the British Empire</a> 1952<br> <a href="/honors/763/000072547/">Copley Medal</a> 1955<br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> Foreign Member<br> <a href="/org/640/000052484/">American Philosophical Society</a> Foreign Member<br> <u>German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina</u> Foreign Member<br> <u>International Society of Hematology</u> <br> <a href="/org/692/000054530/">National Academy of Sciences</a> 1948<br> <u>Royal Danish Academy of Sciences</u> <br> <a href="/org/793/000055628/">Royal Society</a> 1929<br> <a href="/org/611/000091338/">Royal Statistical Society</a> (resigned)<br> <u>Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</u> <br> <a href="/event/623/000161140/">Draft Deferment: World War I</a> C5<br> <a href="/lists/516/000044384/">English Ancestry</a> <br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Statistical Methods for Research Workers</i> (<tt>1925</tt>)<br><i>The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection</i> (<tt>1930</tt>)<br><i>Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies</i> (<tt>1934</tt>, with Julia Bell)<br><i>The Design of Experiments</i> (<tt>1935</tt>)<br><i>Statistical Tables</i> (<tt>1947</tt>)<br><i>Creative Aspects of Natural Law</i> (<tt>1950</tt>)<br><i>Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference</i> (<tt>1956</tt>)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=196175"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=196175">Ronald Fisher</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=196175" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>