English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (died 1962)

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics". In genetics, Fisher was the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin, as his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis. For his contributions to biology, Richard Dawkins declared Fisher to be the greatest of Darwin's successors.

Born

1890

February 17

Died

1962

Era

1890s

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Ronald, in brief

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1890 Born
1962 Died

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1370 Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1500 Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein and King John of Denmark attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.

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The world in 1962

When Ronald departed

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Also born in 1890

Agnes Macphail 1890–1954 Canadian educator and politician (born 1890) Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944 Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (died 1944) Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 French general and politician, President of France (died 1970) Conrad Richter 1890–1968 American journalist and novelist (died 1968) Harry Pollitt 1890–1960 British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (born 1890) Marjorie Main 1890–1975 American actress (born 1890) Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998 American journalist and activist (died 1998) Max Immelmann 1890–1916 German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890) Norman Bethune 1890–1939 Canadian soldier and physician (died 1939)

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