Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
(1890-1962), Mathematical statistician and geneticistSitter in 8 portraits
Statistician and geneticist. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Fisher helped found the University's Eugenic Society. In 1919 he began work as a statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station where he established a reputation as one of the foremost statisticians of the century. Fisher also pursued his interests in genetics, culminating in the publication of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930). In 2010 Richard Dawkins named him 'the greatest biologist since Darwin.'
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x24050
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x24051
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 1940s
NPG x81911
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, March 1943
NPG x24052
by Walter Stoneman
negative, March 1943
NPG x24054
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1953
NPG x24053
by Antony Barrington Brown
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1954
NPG x135997
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, March 1943
NPG x164824
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