Ronald Fisher

Professor Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British eugenicist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He has been described by Richard Dawkins as "The greatest of Darwin’s successors", and the historian of statistics Anders Hald said "Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science."

External links

• Biography at MacTutor
• A Guide to R. A. Fisher by John Aldrich
• Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics for Fisher’s contribution to the language of statistics
• University of Adelaide Library for bibliography, biography, 2 volumes of correspondence and many articles
• Classics in the History of Psychology for the first edition of Statistical Methods for Research Workers
• A collection of Fisher quotations compiled by A. W. F. Edwards