New Professorship Honors Fisher

摘要

North Carolina State University announced a new endowed professorship in honor of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher. The R. A. Fisher Distinguished Professorship will support a full professor in the Department of Statistics at NC State. One of the leading scientists of the 20th century and a father of modern statistical science, Fisher visited what was then North Carolina State College as a faculty member for the 1946 summer session at the invitation of Gertrude M. Cox.