See also: Fisher

Professor Sir Ronald Aymler Fisher , F.R.S. (February 17th 1890 - July 29th 1962) was a biologist and British statistician , “largest of the successors of Darwin” and the man which has - “of only one hand - founded the modern statistics” (Anders Hald). Its work on the statistics was worth the Médaille Darwin in 1948, the Médaille Copley in 1955 and the to him medal of money Darwin-Wallace in 1958.

Into the field of the statistics, it introduced many key concepts such as the Maximum of probability, the Information of Fisher and variance (ANOVA) analyzes it. He is regarded as a large precursor of Shannon.

He is also one of the founders of the modern genetics and a large continuator of Darwin, in particular thanks to his use of the methods statistical, impossible to circumvent in the genetics of the populations. He thus contributed to the mathematical formalization of the principle of Natural selection.

From the point of view of the ideas, it was preserving, Christian and rationalist.

It also militated for the Eugénisme in the years 1930.