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Animal Breeding Biography. A Series of Events in Time. THE THREE TENORS. Fisher Wright Lush. Sir Ronald A. Fisher 1890 to 1962 London – Australia Had a twin (stillborn) Cambridge U. – Statistics 395 papers, 8 books - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Animal Breeding Biography
A Series of Events in Time
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THE THREE TENORS
Fisher Wright Lush
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Sir Ronald A. Fisher
1890 to 1962
London – Australia
Had a twin (stillborn)
Cambridge U. – Statistics
395 papers, 8 books
1912 worked in Canada on a farm
Uncontrollable Temper, Hatred towards Karl Pearson
Maximum likelihood, ANOVA, Experimental Design,…..
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Karl Pearson
1857-1936
Lawyer, philosopher, statistician(33)
Biometrika
Excellent teacher
Admired, feared, hated
Son, Egon S. Pearson
Product Moment Correlation
“stupid”
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Sewall Wright
1889-1988
1912 worked in field as surveyor, SD
lung infection
Harvard – Coat colour of G.P.s
Inbreeding Coefficients, Paths
Univ. of Chicago, Statistical Genetics, retired
Worked at Univ. of Wisconsin for 30+ years at same salary
Was offered more money, but never accepted it.
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Father of Modern Animal Breeding
Jay L. Lush
1896-1982
Iowa State University
26 MSc, 124 PhD
“Just Be Productive”
Father was Canadian, originally from England
Mother’s father was from Ireland
Wife – Adaline Lincoln, second cousin to Abraham Lincoln
She taught French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin
Lush never used profanity
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Lush audited Wright’s course, “most fruitful 10 weeks I ever had”
Together Lush and Wright invited Fisher to US
Founders of Statistics, Evolutionary Theory, Animal Breeding
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Douglas S. Falconer
1913-2004
Edinburgh
Quantitative Genetics
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Charlie Smith
1932-1997
Edinburgh, Iowa St., Guelph
Strategies in Animal Breeding
MOET Schemes
PhD at Iowa State
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Charles R. Henderson
1911-1989
Iowa St.,Cornell, Guelph, Illinois
ANOVA for Animal Sciences
Methods of VC Estimation
BLUP
Inverse of A
Many awards and honours
Track star, hockey fan
Born in southwest Iowa, near to Lush’s birthplace.
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Brian W. Kennedy
1943-1994
Macdonald College, Cornell, California, Guelph
QG with BLUP
Advisor: Henderson
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Alan Robertson
1920-1989
Edinburgh, Iowa St.
Theoretical Population Genetics
Practical utility
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Harald Skjervold
1917-1995
Norway, Iowa St.
Applied Lush to Norway
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A. E. (Gene) Freeman
1931-
West Virginia, Iowa State, Cornell, Iowa State
Dairy Cattle Genetics
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Franz Pirchner
Zurich, Iowa St.
Editor of JABG
Book
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Lush
Robertson
Smith
Lohuis, Gibson
Henderson
Van Vleck, Kennedy, Schaeffer, Freeman
Wilton
Robinson, Jansen, Miller
Schenkel
Legates
Burnside
Filippo