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