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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

1890 - 1962

Born

17 February 1890

East Finchley, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Died

29/07/1962

Adelaide, Australia, Oceania

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
02/05/1929
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
39
Occupation
Statistician; Geneticist; Teacher
Relationships
Married (Ruth) Eileen Guinness, 1917, daughter of Dr. Henry Gratton Guiness (1861-1915), physician and missionary; eight children born 1919-1938; separated 1943. A daughter, Joan Fisher Box, wrote a biography of her father: she married the statistician George E. P. Box