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Ronald Fisher with his sons. Fisher married Eileen Guinness, with whom he had two sons and six daughters. [42] His marriage disintegrated during World War II, and his older son George, an aviator, was killed in combat. [111] His daughter Joan, who wrote a biography of her father, married the statistician George E. P. Box. [112]
The Office of Children's Issues is an agency of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which in turn is part of the U.S. Department of State.The Office of Children's Issues was created in 1994 under the leadership of Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mary Ryan and that of her successor Maura Harty. [1]
Ron Fisher may refer to: Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist; Ron Fisher (politician) (born 1934), Canadian politician; Ron Fisher (footballer) (1911–1993), Australian rules footballer; Ron Fisher (tennis) in 1958 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection is a book by Ronald Fisher which combines Mendelian genetics with Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, [1] with Fisher being the first to argue that "Mendelism therefore validates Darwinism" [2] and stating with regard to mutations that "The vast majority of large mutations are deleterious; small mutations are both far more frequent and more ...
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Joan Box, Fisher's biographer and daughter states in her 1978 book, The Life of a Scientist [4] that Fisher, then a student, had resolved this problem in 1911. Fisher had originally submitted his paper (then entitled "The correlation to be expected between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance") to the Royal Society of London ...
The "F" of Snedecor's F distribution is named in honor of Sir Ronald Fisher. Snedecor was awarded honorary doctorates of science by North Carolina State University in 1956 and Iowa State University in 1958. Snedecor Hall, at Iowa State University, is the home of the Statistics Department. It was constructed in 1939.
European pied flycatcher Ronald Fisher in 1912. The sexy son hypothesis in evolutionary biology and sexual selection, proposed by Patrick J. Weatherhead and Raleigh J. Robertson of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1979, [1] states that a female's ideal mate choice among potential mates is one whose genes will produce males with the best chance of reproductive success.