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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-06-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000405b.htm person Fisher Ronald Aylmer FRS AACR2 17 February 1890 28 July 1962 Place of Birth England Geneticist Statistician 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. CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1974 - 1997) 1959 1962

Research Fellow at the Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO Adelaide

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 'Fisher, Ronald Aylmer', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: A Guide to R. A. Fisher Aldrich, John A Guide to R. A. Fisher 2003 Resource: R.A. Fisher Digital Archive R.A. Fisher Digital Archive Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide 2003 Resource Section: Fisher, Ronald Aylmer - Ms 90 Fisher, Ronald Aylmer - Ms 90 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Book Section: Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Skipper, Robert Fisher, Ronald Aylmer Detroit Charles Scribner's Sons 2008 New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Koertge, Noretta 3 29-33 Book Section: Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Rasmussen, Carolyn Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 105-131 Journal Article: James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987 Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P. James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987 1988 Historical Records of Australian Science 7 3 299-313 Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Records MS 090 1955 - 1961 Certificates and awards 1955-61 including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. 0.09 m Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Records Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Records MSS 0013 1911 - 1960 Extensive correspondence, with undated notebook and early papers by Fisher on heredity and evolution; overall dates 1911-60 [3.2 m, MSS 0013]. 3.2 m