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British polymath (1890–1962)

For the New Zealand cricketer, see Ronald Fisher (cricketer).

Sir Ronald Aylmer FisherFRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.^[5] For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"^[6][7] and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".^[8] In genetics, Fisher was the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin,^[9] 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 suc