Name Muriel Bristol | ||
Muriel Bristol (21 April 1888 – 15 March 1950), Ph.D., was a phycologist who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in 1919. Her research focused on the mechanisms by which algae acquire nutrients.
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Scientific career
Bristol was a Ph.D. scientist who established the Rothamstead Experiment Station in 1919. This was the place that Fisher was later to make famous.
Statistics and tea
In addition to her scientific work, she was the woman whose claim to be able to tell whether the milk or the tea was poured into a cup first prompted Ronald Fisher to devise Fisher's exact test to assess the statistical significance of such claims; see lady tasting tea. The test was actually performed, and Bristol-Roach successfully identified the condition of all eight of eight cups, "more than enough ... to prove her case".
Family life
Bristol married William Roach in 1923.