Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12959

    Portrait of Ronald Aylmer Fisher

    Date
    1933-1934
    Sitter
    Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890 - 1962, British) , Statistician
    Creator
    Maurice Stevenson Bartlett (1910 - 2002, British) , Statistician
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 299mm
    width (drawing): 217mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head of R A Fisher, half turned to the right as viewed. Fisher is shown wearing round-framed spectacles with a jacket, light shirt and patterned tie.

    Initialled below: ‘M.S.B.’

    Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), British statistician, geneticist and eugenicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1938, Darwin Medal, 1948, and Copley Medal, 1955, and gave the Croonian Lecture in 1953 on population genetics. He helped to found the Cambridge University Eugenics Society as an undergraduate in 1911, and in 1933 succeeded Karl Pearson (1857-1936) as Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London.

    Maurice Stevenson Bartlett (1910–2002), statistician and probabilist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961.
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