Portrait of Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Date
1933-1934
Sitter
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890 - 1962, British) , Statistician
Creator
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett (1910 - 2002, British) , Statistician
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 299mm
width (drawing): 217mm
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.
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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