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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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Born
17 February 1890
London, England
Died
29 July 1962
Adelaide, Australia
Summary
Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British statistician and geneticist important in developing the use of statistics in genetics and biomathematics.

Biography

R A Fisher's parents were Katie Heath, the daughter of a solicitor, and George Fisher, of Robinson and Fisher a firm of auctioneers in King Street, St James, London.

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    • Katie and George had seven children, four boys and three girls. After the birth of Geoffrey in 1876 and Evelyn in 1877, they named their third child, who was born the following year, Alan. He died at a very young age and Katie, being superstitious, decided that all their children from that time on would have a "y" in their name.

    Ronald Aylmer Fisher was the second of twins, but the older twin was still-born.

    In 1904 Ronald entered Harrow, but this was a difficult time for the fourteen year old boy, for his mother died in that yea