Person
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890 - 1962)
FRS
- Born
- 17 February 1890
England - Died
- 28 July 1962
- Occupation
- Geneticist and Statistician
Summary
Ronald Fisher was Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge 1943-1957, and Professor of Genetics, University College, London 1933-1943. During his retirement Fisher became a Research Fellow at the Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, Adelaide 1959-1962. Besides laying the foundation of virtually the whole of modern mathematical statistics and developing many particular aspects both theoretical and applied, Fisher made a great many outstanding contributions to genetics, particularly in its biometrical and evolutionary aspects.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Records, 1955 - 1961, MS 090; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Book Sections
- Skipper, Robert, 'Fisher, Ronald Aylmer' in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Koertge, Noretta, ed., vol. 3 (Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 29-33. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q216723. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/41900609. Details
- R.A. Fisher Digital Archive, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, 2003, http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/special/fisher/index.html. Details
- A Guide to R. A. Fisher, 2003, http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/rafframe.htm. Details
- 'Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-822505. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Fisher, Ronald Aylmer - Ms 90', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms090.html. Details
See also
- Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730299. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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