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2 unusual facts about Fiona Margaret Hall


Fiona Margaret Hall

She is the younger sister of the internationally renowned mathematical statistician and probabilist Peter Gavin Hall.

Hall was born to Ruby Payne-Scott (a pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy) and telephone technician William Holman Hall in 1953 and grew up in Oatley, Sydney.


Ruby Payne-Scott

Ruby and Bill Hall had two children: Peter Gavin Hall, an internationally renowned mathematician working in theoretical statistics and probability theory, and Fiona Margaret Hall, one of Australia's more prominent artists, whose career is described by Julie Ewington in her 2005 book Fiona Hall.


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