The Fisher Memorial Trust was set up to promote interest in the life and work of the great statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) and to maintain his scientific legacy by encouraging discussion of the scientific fields in which he was active.
Charity Commission charity number 313536
| Society | Representative | Position |
| Biometric Society | Prof Rosemary Bailey | |
| Biometric Society | Prof Chris Glasbey | |
| Biometric Society | Prof John Gower | |
| Genetics Society | Prof Brian Charlesworth, FRS | |
| Genetics Society | Prof Adam Eyre-Walker | Treasurer |
| Royal Society | Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS | Chairman |
| Royal Statistical Society | Sir David Cox, FRS | |
| Royal Statistical Society | Prof Stephen Senn | Secretary |
(Photograph by Denise Till)
| I | Dr. F. Yates | 23.3.66 | Computers, the second revolution in statistics. |
| II | Dr. R. R. Race | 6.3.68 | Blood groups in human genetics |
| III | Prof. E. A. Cornish | 3.9.69 | Developments from the Fisher-Cornish expansions. |
| IV | Prof. K. Mather | 18.12.70 | Biometrical genetics. |
| V | Prof. G. A. Barnard | 19.9.72 | Statistical inference and its historical development |
| VI | Prof. L. L. Cavalli-Sforza | 24.6.74 | Cultural versus biological evolution |
| VII | Prof. R. Hide | 17.11.77 | Motions in planetry fluids |
| VIII | Prof. D. J. Finney | 20.9.78 | Bioassay and the practice of statistical inference |
| IX | Prof. J. Maynard Smith | 19.3.81 | The evolution of the sex ratio |
| X | Prof. J. H. Bennett | 3.6.81 | R. A. Fisher and The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection |
| XI | Prof. S. Karlin | 20.4.83 | Kin selection and altruism |
| XII | Prof. D. R. Cox | 5.4.84 | Regression and the design of experiments |
| XIII | Prof. S. M. Stigler | 22.9.86 | Francis Galton and the unravelling of the normal world |
| XIV | Prof. G. E. Box | 23.3.88 | Quality improvement, an expanding domain for the application of scientific method |
| XV | Sir Walter Bodmer | 23.3.90 | Genetic sequences |
| XVI | Prof. D. Lindley | 17.9.92 | Statistics of the market place |
| XVII | Prof. A. J. Jeffereys | 16.8.93 | Molecular sleuthing: the story of genetic fingerprinting |
| XVIII | Dr. A. W. F. Edwards | 20.10.94 | Fiducial inference and the fundamental theorem of natural selection |
| XIX | Prof. M. J. R. Healy | 3.4.95 | The life and work of Frank Yates |
| XX | Prof. J. A. Nelder | 5.9.96 | Computers and statistics: the continuing revolution. |
| XXI | Sir John Kingman | 16.11.98 | Mathematics of genetic diversity: before and after DNA. |
| XXII | Prof. B Efron | 12.9.00 | The essential Fisher |
| XXIII | Sir Richard Doll | 29.10.01 | Proof of causality: Deductions from epidemiological evidence |
| XXIV | Dr. Oliver Mayo | 26.06.02 | The realisation of Fisher’s research programme |
| XXV | Prof. Warren Ewens | 7.04.03 | Statistics and the transformation from genetics to genomics |
| XXVI | Prof. Adrian Smith | 8.09.04 | Towards an Evidence-Based Society: the Role of Statistical Thinking |
| XXVII | Prof. E.A.Thompson | 4.12.06 | 1953: an unrecognized summit in Human Genetic Linkage Analysis |
| XXVIII | Prof. R.A. Bailey | 15.07.08 | Design of dose-escalation trials |
| XXIX | Prof B Charlesworth and Prof D Charlesworth | 6.01.10 | Fisher and Modern Evolutionary Genetics |
| XXX | Prof Philip Dawid | 10.11.11 | Causal inference from experimental data |
The 30th Fisher memorial lecture was given by Prof Philip Dawid of the University of Cambridge on the subject of Causal inference from experimental data at the Newton Institute of the University of Cambridge, 10 November 2011.
This page last updated 4 January 2012
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