Sir Ronald Fisher window


A stained glass window commemorating British statistician, geneticist, and eugenicist R. A. Fisher was installed in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, England in 1989. It depicts a 7x7 Latin square, as featured in Fisher's The Design of Experiments. The window is part of a larger work by Maria McClafferty. Initially there were two windows, the other featuring a Venn diagram to commemorate John Venn, both installed in time for the 1990 centenary of Fisher's birth. In 1992 this was expanded with four more windows: a DNA spiral celebrating Francis Crick, and windows celebrating Charles Scott Sherrington, George Green and James Chadwick.
In 2020, during the global George Floyd protests, the college's Gate of Honour was spray-painted in protest of the installation and of Fisher's association with eugenics, and the college announced that the window would be removed because of Fisher's tarnished reputation.