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Ronald Fisher was a professor at University College London holding the chair of..?

  • Galton Professor of Eugenics

  • Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

  • Royal Society Research Professor

  • Drummond Professor of Political Economy

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The Galton Professorship of Eugenics at University College London was held by Ronald Fisher, an influential statistician and geneticist. Eugenics, a field that aimed to improve the human race through selective breeding, was a controversial subject even at the time, and Fisher's association with it has been widely debated.
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