Ronald Fisher - Wikipedia

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS[3] (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British statistician and geneticist. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"[4] and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".[5] In genetics, 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, Fisher has been called "the greatest of Darwin's successors".[6] From 1919 onward, he worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station for 14 years;[7] there, he analysed its immense data from crop experiments since the 1840s, and developed the analysis of variance (ANOVA).