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Ronald Aylmer Fisher was born into a wealthy family in London, England, UK.
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at age 19, he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge. Three years later he graduated with first class honors in mathematics.
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Fisher formed Cambridge University’s Eugenics Society, which attracted a number of prominent members.
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Published his first paper, in which he created the method of maximum likelihood. He continued refining this method for 10 years.
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worked as a statistician for an insurance company and trained in Britain’s Territorial Army.
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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..
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With financial help from Leonard Darwin he published a landmark paper founding quantitative genetics: The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance
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Created the statistical method of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and introduced the concept of likelihood.
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At the time of its publication it received no positive reviews, yet it was soon to revolutionize statistics and biology.
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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
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knighted by Queen Elizabeth, becoming Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher.
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He died of colon cancer in 1962.
