(1890–1962) English
statistician and
biologist. R.A. Fisher is considered to be one of the founders of
modern
statistics. While working in
agricultural research in the
1920s and 1930s, he showed how the research and ideas of
Mendel
support
Darwin's theory of
natural selection. This
and other work resulted in many important statistical concepts and
techniques. These include:
Fisher was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1929 and
knighted in 1952.