Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an eugenicist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, geophysicist, Lecturer, mathematical biologist, professor, scientist, statistician, and FRS(Fellow of the Royal Society). Ronald Fisher is considered to be the father of modern statistics and experimental design. He provided researchers in biology and medicine with their most important research tools, as well as with the modern version of biology's central theorem. He was born to George Fisher and Katie Heath Fisher. He was the youngest of seven children. He had three brothers, and three sisters. His father was a fine arts dealer. Ronald married Ruth Eileen Gratton Guinness on 26 April 1917. They had two sons (one of whom died in infancy. The elder was killed in action in 1943) and six daughters.

Awards:

* Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1978
* Fellow of the Royal Society of London - 1980
* Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1982
* Darwin Medal of the Royal Society of London - 1988
* Scientific Medal of the Linnean Society - 1989
* Frink Medal of Zoological Society of London - 1991
* Wander Prize of the University of Bern - 1992, 1993
* Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - 1993
* Kyoto Prize of the Inamori Foundation - 1993
* Fyssen Prize of the Fyssen Foundation - 1995

Books Published:

* Statistical Methods for Research Workers - 1925
* The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection - 1930
* The design of experiments - 1935
* The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems (in Annals of Eugenics - 1936
* Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research - 1938 coauthor: Frank Yates
* The theory of inbreeding - 1949
* Contributions to mathematical statistics - 1950
* Statistical methods, experimental design, and scientific inference - 1956
* Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher - 1971 – 1974 Five Volumes