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Francis Galton

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Gender Male
Death113 years ago
Date of birth February 16,1822
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Birmingham
United Kingdom
Date of died January 17,1911
DiedHaslemere
United Kingdom
Known for Eugenics
Bean machine
Behavioural genetics
Job Polymath
Inventor
Statistician
Education King's College London
Trinity College
University of Cambridge
Awards Copley Medal
Royal Medal
Darwin–Wallace Medal
Founder's Gold Medal
Spouse Louisa Jane Butler
NationalityEnglish
Influencees Charles Spearman
Karl Pearson
Lewis Terman
Charles Davenport
Cesare Lombroso
Raphael Weldon
FoundedThe Physiological Society
Adelphi Genetics Forum
Galton Laboratory
Parents Frances Anne Violetta Darwin
Samuel Tertius Galton
InterestsStatistics
Biometrics
Heredity
Intelligence
Mental Representation
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Date of Upd.
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Francis Galton's Art of travel (1872)
Memories of My Life
English men of science
Probability, the foundation of eugenics
Essays in eugenics
Noteworthy families
Fingerprint Directories
Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa
Life history album
Vacation tourists and notes of travel in 1860
Record of family faculties
The Art of Rough Travel
Decipherment of blurred finger prints
Bericht eines Forschers im tropischen Südafrika
The First Steps Towards the Domestication of Animals
Meteorographica Or, Methods of Mapping the Weather: Referring to the Weather of a Large Part of Europe During the Month of December 1861
The History of Twins and Their Character
Modern 'science' [ed. by W. Newton]. No. 1. A scientific view of mr. Francis Galton's theories of heredity [in his Hereditary genius].
Noteworthy Families: Modern Science
Essays in Eugenics [Christmas Summary Classics]
Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) an Index to Kinships in Near Degrees Betwee
Galton Heredity Talent And Character: 1865
Hereditary Character and Talent: As Found Originally in Macmillan's Magazine in 1865
Proceedings . . .
The Prayer- Gauge Debate - Scholar's Choice Edition
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture - Scholar's Choice Edition
Works on Psychometrics
Noteworthy Families. an Index to Kinships in Near Degrees Between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded, Vol. I. of the Publications of the Eugenics Record Office of the University of London
Hereditary Genius
Finger Prints
Natural Inheritance
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI was a British polymath in the Victorian era. He was a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics, and scientific racism. Galton was knighted in 1909. Galton produced over 340 papers and books.

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