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Adolphe Quetelet
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet 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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science · Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (1796–1874) · astronomer · mathematician · physicist · criminologist · statistician · sociologist · university teacher · naturalist · writer · botanist · also Adolphe Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Quételet, Quetelet, Adolphe Lambert Jacques Quetelet
Born 22 February 1796 · Died 17 February 1874 · Q20012
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2018· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874
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2017· 1 entry
Le Soir: 22 février 1796: naissance du belge Adolphe Quetelet
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2016· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Adolphe Quetelet and the Evolution of Body Mass Index (BMI)
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1874· 1 entry
Died 1874-02-17.
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1855· 1 entry
Quetelet developed apoplexy, which diminished but did not end his scientific activity
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1853· 1 entry
Chaired both the International Maritime Conference and the first International Statistical Congress
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1850· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1846· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1846).
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1839· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1839).
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Was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1837· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1837).
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1835· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1835).
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(In English translation, it is titled Treatise on Man, but a literal translation would be "On Man and the Development of his Faculties, or Essay on Social Physics")
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1832· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1832–1874).
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1825· 1 entry
Became a correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, in 1827 he became a member
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1824· 1 entry
Studied at Paris Observatory, PSL University (1823–1824).
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1819· 2 entries
Studied at Ghent University (1817–1819).
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Moved to the Athenaeum in Brussels and in the same year he completed his dissertation (De quibusdam locis geometricis, necnon de curva focal – Of some new properties of the focal distance and some other curves)
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1796· 1 entry
Born 1796-02-22.
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