R.A. Fisher Exhibition
- 👤 Speaker: Prof. AWF Edwards
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30 - 16:30
- 📍 Venue: Library, Department of Genetics
Abstract
The Department of Genetics is celebrating 100 years of Prof. RA Fisher at Cambridge. Prof. RA Fisher a renowned statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist started as a student at Gonville and Caius College in 1909 and held the Balfour Professorship at the Department of Genetics (1943-1957). To mark the occasion, a day long exhibition will be set up at the Genetics department library. The exhibition will be opened at 10 am with a short talk by Prof. AWF Edwards, a Fisher scholar, with a brief introduction to the exhibits including Fisher’s medals, books, handwritten notes and published articles. This event is open to the general public. For more information about the exhibition visit: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/
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Prof. AWF Edwards
Tuesday 08 December 2009, 09:30-16:30