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Galton, Francis
Birmingham, UK
16.02.1822
Haslemere, UK
17.01.1911 |
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| Degrees: |
B.A., Cambridge University, 1844 |
| Career: |
Studies of medicine at London; 1844 study trip through Europe and Africa; 1857 private scholar in London; no academic or official positions; 1882 laboratory in London established which was the first mental test center in the world; 1901 foundation of the journal Biometrika with Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon; 1909 knighted. |
| Selected works: |
Galton, Francis. 1877. Typical laws of heredity. Nature 15: 492-495, 512-514, 532-533
Galton, Francis. 1897. The average contribution of each several ancestor to the total heritage of the offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society 61: 401-413
Galton, Francis. 1907. Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. 2nd ed. London, New York: J. M. Dent
Galton, Francis. 1892. Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into its Laws and Consequences. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan
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| Sources: |
Schmidt ; Zusne |
| Related: |
See Ghostly Spirits: Three Cases of Experimentation on Life and Death in Late-19th-Century Science, article by Katrin Solhdju |
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ISSN 1866-4784: reference -
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