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Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Biography MathSciNet

D.Sc. University of Cambridge 1926

Dissertation:

Advisor 1: Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Advisor 2: F. J. M. Stratton

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
J. Henry Bennett	University of Cambridge	1953
Walter Bodmer	University of Cambridge		11
Anthony Edwards			61
David Finney
J. Irwin	University of Cambridge	1937	327
Alan Owen	University of Cambridge	1948
C. R. Rao	University of Cambridge	1948	463

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