He holds eleven honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them: the Presidential Citizen's Medal, the Washingtonian of the Year Award, the James L. Fisher Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ), the Larry Stewart Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Association for Community Leadership.

* Eric Fisher Wood, Jr .-First Lieutenant, United States Army ( 1919 – 1945 ): Distinguished Service Cross, World War II

Fisher was the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians, " presented annually to a former parliamentarian who has made an outstanding contribution to the country and its democratic institutions.

Starobin was the first guitarist to have been awarded Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant ( 1988 ); was honored by Peabody Conservatory with its " Distinguished Alumni Award " ( 1999 ); and was given with his wife, Becky Starobin, ASCAP's ' Deems Taylor Award ' for their work with Bridge Records ( 2007 ).

Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Fisher accepts Detachment 850 Distinguished Alumnus award

Writing in the mid-1960s with another genetics student of Ronald A. Fisher, Anthony W. F. Edwards, Cavalli-Sforza pioneered statistical methods for estimating evolutionary trees ( phylogenies ); to estimate evolutionary trees, they used maximum likelihood estimation.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

* Martin Fisher ( Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability )

* Eddie Fisher Sings Academy Award Winning Songs – Eddie Fisher

* Cholmondeley Award: Roy Fisher, Robert Garioch, Charles Boyle

• 1997-1998: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award ( VT )

On October 25, 2007, Fisher guest-starred as Rosemary Howard on the second season episode of 30 Rock called " Rosemary's Baby ", for which she received an Emmy Award nomination.

* 1995: Henry Johnson Fisher Award from the Magazine Publishers of America

The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, named after her, is a unique award for new American children's books, as the winner is chosen by the vote of child readers.

* Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

* Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

* Recipient of the 1994 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Award for Excellence in Military Medicine ( also known as the Fisher Award )

Among other awards, Charles Mee is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two OBIE Awards ( Vienna: Lusthaus ( 1986 ) and Big Love ( 2002 )), PEN / Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama for a playwright in mid-career, and the Fisher Award given by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King ; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe.

He won the Independent Spirit Award for his big-screen debut performance in the 2002 film Antwone Fisher, directed and produced by Denzel Washington.

Other films of note include ; " The Fisher King " as Lydia opposite Robin Williams and directed by Terry Gilliam, for which she received a BAFTA 1992 film nomination, a Chicago Film Critics Association Award 1992 nomination, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award 2nd place, for best supporting actress ; " Pulp Fiction " as Honey Bunny directed by Quentin Tarrantino, for which she received an American Comedy Award nomination for funniest supporting role in a motion picture ; " Girlfriend " as Celeste directed by Justin Lerner, Official Selection of the 2010 Toronto Film Festival ; " Butterfly Kiss " as Eunice directed by Michael Winterbottom ; " My Life Without Me " directed by Isabel Coixet ; " Vampire " as Helga directed by Iwai Shunji ; " Ken Park " directed by Larry Clark.

In April 2006, Atlas Foundation awarded Maxim Institute's Parent Factor publications as the winner of the Innovative Projects category of the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. The Atlas Foundation is a centre-right US think-tank

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.

Five of these vessels carry supplies for the US Marine Corps sufficient to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for 30 days: USNS Button, USNS Kocak, USNS Lopez, USNS Stockham, and USNS Fisher.

A methodology for designing experiments was proposed by Ronald A. Fisher, in his innovative books: " The Arrangement of Field Experiments " ( 1926 ) and The Design of Experiments ( 1935 ).

The exchange was for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher ( aka Rudolf Abel ), who had been caught by the FBI and jailed for espionage.

Often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and drawing on Universal's precedent, these films include The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), and Dracula ( 1958 ), both followed by many sequels, with director Terence Fisher being responsible for many of the best films.

For Chrétien a grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey, as the audience may have expected for such a container, but a single Mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King ’ s crippled father.

" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

** Fisher – Yates shuffle, also known as the Knuth Shuffle, an algorithm for randomly permuting sets

but arguments for the same principle, unnamed, and the use of the principle in applications goes back to the works of R. A. Fisher in the 1920s.

Likelihood and Probability in R. A. Fisher ’ s Statistical Methods for Research Workers

Ronald Fisher held the view that genetic drift plays at the most a minor role in evolution, and this remained the dominant view for several decades.

Steven Fisher, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest advocacy group for gay and lesbian issues in the United States, commenting on the Schrock outing, said he opposed using " sexual orientation as a weapon.

Another example might be Fisher v Bell, where it was held that a shopkeeper who placed an illegal item in a shop window with a price tag did not make an offer to sell it, because of the specific meaning of " offer for sale " in contract law.

The Fisher – Yates shuffle, popularized by Donald Knuth, is a simple ( a few lines of code ) and efficient ( O ( n ) on an n-card deck, assuming constant time for fundamental steps ) algorithm for doing this.

The physical interpretation, for example, is taken by followers of " frequentist " statistical methods, such as R. A. Fisher, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson.

While Darwin had been criticised for simply accepting female whims as given, Ronald Fisher grasped the underlying mechanism in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, in a remark that was not widely understood for another 50 years: