Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, eugenicist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics". In genetics, Fisher was the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin, as his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Fisher has received more than 1,911,357 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Ronald Fisher is the 4th most popular statistician, the 735th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 761st in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Statistician.

Ronald Fisher is most famous for his work in population genetics. He is also known for his work in the field of statistics, and for his contributions to the design of experiments.