Recognition and Awards
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929
- Awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal of Oxford University in 1930
- Awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1938
- Awarded the Royal Society’s Darwin Medal in 1948
- Awarded the Royal Society’s highest award, the Copley Medal, in 1955
(Previous recipients included Benjamin Franklin, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Robert Bunsen, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, and James Chadwick) - Was knighted in 1952
- Awarded the Guy medal in gold of the Royal Statistical Society 1953
- Elected President of Gonville and Caius College 1956-1959
Honorary Doctorate of Science diploma, 1926
Honorary doctorates
- University of Glasgow
- University of London
- University of Calcutta
- Harvard University
- University of Iowa (Ames)
- University of Chicago
- University of Adelaide
On display:
- Honorary Doctorate of Science diploma. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1926. Fisher Papers. Series 26
Letter of congratulation from Arthur Hill 1938
Honorary foreign memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Science
- American Philosophical Society
- National Academy of Science of the United States
- Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- Royal Danish Academy of Science
- Indian Statistical Institute
- Pontifical Academy of the Vatican, 1961
On display:
- Letter of congratulation from Arthur Hill 14th November 1938, on Fisher’s award of the Royal Medal. Fisher Papers. Series 24: Cuttings book re [early] :
“Dear Fisher,
Hearty congratulations on the Royal Medal – a fitting reward for your diversions on scraps of paper on board ship.When you next dine with the R.S. Club I think we shall have to demand the filling of Boys’ jug with an appropriate fluid!
Yours ever, Arthur Hill ” Royal Gardens, Kew, Surrey, 14.XI.38.
