Adolphe Quetelet
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 150 years ago |
| Born | Ghent |
| Belgium | |
| Date of died | February 17,1874 |
| Died | Brussels |
| Belgium | |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Influenced by | Joseph Fourier |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | |
| Job | Statistician |
| Astronomer | |
| Books | A treatise on man and the development of his faculties |
| Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha: On the Theory of Probabilities, as Applied to the Moral and Political Sciences | |
| Adolphe Quetelet's Research on the Propensity for Crime at Different Ages | |
| Popular Instructions on the Calculation of Probabilities | |
| Comparative Statistics in the 19th Century | |
| Date of birth | February 22,1796 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Known for | contributions to social physics |
| Parents | François Augustin Jacques Henri Quetelet |
| Anne Françoise Vandervelde | |
| Education | Ghent University |
| Notable student | Joseph Plateau |
| Rehuel Lobatto | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 641960 |
Adolphe Quetelet Life story
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.
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