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
1912 worked in Canada on a farm
Uncontrollable Temper, Hatred towards Karl Pearson
Maximum likelihood, ANOVA, Experimental Design,…..
Karl Pearson
1857-1936
Lawyer, philosopher, statistician(33)
Biometrika
Excellent teacher
Admired, feared, hated
Son, Egon S. Pearson
Product Moment Correlation
“stupid”
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.
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
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
Douglas S. Falconer
1913-2004
Edinburgh
Quantitative Genetics
Charlie Smith
1932-1997
Edinburgh, Iowa St., Guelph
Strategies in Animal Breeding
MOET Schemes
PhD at Iowa State
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.
Brian W. Kennedy
1943-1994
Macdonald College, Cornell, California, Guelph
QG with BLUP
Advisor: Henderson
Alan Robertson
1920-1989
Edinburgh, Iowa St.
Theoretical Population Genetics
Practical utility
Harald Skjervold
1917-1995
Norway, Iowa St.
Applied Lush to Norway
A. E. (Gene) Freeman
1931-
West Virginia, Iowa State, Cornell, Iowa State
Dairy Cattle Genetics
Franz Pirchner
Zurich, Iowa St.
Editor of JABG
Book
Lush
Robertson
Smith
Lohuis, Gibson
Henderson
Van Vleck, Kennedy, Schaeffer, Freeman
Wilton
Robinson, Jansen, Miller
Schenkel
Legates
Burnside
Filippo