R. A. Fisher Lectureship

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The R. A. Fisher Lectureship is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science, and recognizes the highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations. The R. A. Fisher Lecture is given at the Joint Statistical Meetings in North America and is subsequently published in a statistics journal. The lecturer receives a plaque and a cash award of US$1000. The award was established in 1963 by the North American Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) in recognition of the British statistician Ronald Aylmer Fisher. It is given every year if an eligible and worthy nominee is found (which one was in all but 5 years up to 2008).

[edit] R. A. Fisher Lecturers

1972 William G. Cochran
1973 Jerome Cornfield
1974 George E. P. Box
1975 Herman Chernoff
1976 George Barnard
1977 R. C. Bose
1978 William Kruskal
1979 C. R. Rao
1982 F. J. Anscombe
1983 I. R. Savage
1985 T. W. Anderson
1986 David H. Blackwell
1987 Frederick Mosteller
1988 Erich Lehmann
1989 David R. Cox
1990 Donald A. S. Fraser
1991 David Brillinger
1992 Paul Meier
1993 Herbert Robbins
1994 Elizabeth A. Thompson
1995 Norman Breslow
1996 Bradley Efron
1997 Colin Mallows
1998 Arthur P. Dempster
1999 Jack Kalbfleisch
2000 Ingram Olkin
2001 James O. Berger
2002 Raymond Carroll
2003 Adrian F. M. Smith
2004 Donald Rubin
2005 R. Dennis Cook
2006 Terence Speed
2007 Marvin Zelen

[edit] Other lecture series named after R. A. Fisher

Two other series of lectures are also named after R. A. Fisher:

The Fisher Memorial Lecture on an application of mathematics to biology, usually given in the UK, first given in 1964
The Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture on genetics, evolutionary biology or statistics, given at the University of Adelaide, Australia, first given in 1990