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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS[5] (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.[6][7] For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"[8][9] and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".[10] In genetics, Fisher was the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin,[11] 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. For his contributions to biology, Richard Dawkins declared Fisher to be the greatest of Darwin's successors.[12] He is also considered one of the founding fathers of Neo-Darwinism.[13][14] According to statistician Jeffrey T. Leek, Fisher is the most influentia

Ronald Fisher - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British polymath (1890–1962) For the New Zealand cricketer, see Ronald Fisher (cricketer) . Sir Ronald Fisher FRS Fisher in 1913 Born Ronald Aylmer Fisher ( 1890-02-17 ) 17 February 1890 London, England Died 29 July 1962 (1962-07-29) (aged 72) Adelaide , South Australia , Australia Resting place St. Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Known for Eugenics Fisher's exact test Fisher's inequality Fisher's principle Fisher's geometric model Fisher's Iris data set F

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