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The day Ronald was born
Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born into a wealthy family in London, England, UK. -
Won a scholarship
at age 19, he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge. Three years later he graduated with first class honors in mathematics. -
Cambridge University’s Eugenics Society
Fisher formed Cambridge University’s Eugenics Society, which attracted a number of prominent members. -
First paper
Published his first paper, in which he created the method of maximum likelihood. He continued refining this method for 10 years. -
Worked as a statistician
worked as a statistician for an insurance company and trained in Britain’s Territorial Army. -
Volunteered for the British Army
volunteered for the British Army at the start of World War 1 and was rejected because of his poor eyesight. became a high school mathematics and physics teacher.. -
He published a paper founding quantitative genetics.
With financial help from Leonard Darwin he published a landmark paper founding quantitative genetics: The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance -
Created the statistical method
Created the statistical method of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and introduced the concept of likelihood. -
Released his book Statistical Methods for Research Workers
At the time of its publication it received no positive reviews, yet it was soon to revolutionize statistics and biology. -
Released his book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
unifying the theory of natural selection with Mendel’s laws of inheritance, defining the new field of population genetics and revitalizing the concept of sexual selection -
Become Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher.
knighted by Queen Elizabeth, becoming Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher. -
His dead
He died of colon cancer in 1962.
