A Cambridge college reflects on the controversy over Ronald Fisher
The defenestration of a statistician and eugenicist
STEP INSIDE the dining hall of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and within its cool, wood-panelled walls are memorials to great scholars of Caius and their work. There are windows to John Venn and his diagram; to Francis Crick and the DNA double helix; there is a painting of Stephen Hawking. And—until two years ago—there was a window to the work of a statistician called Ronald Fisher. It has now gone.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Window pains”
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