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Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
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science · British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911) · mathematician · explorer · anthropologist · geneticist · psychologist · geographer · meteorologist · statistician · philosopher · sociologist · also Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton, 1st Bt., F. G., Galton
Born 16 February 1822 · Died 17 January 1911 · Q191026
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2026· 3 entries
“the middlemost estimate expresses the vox populi, every other estimate being condemned as too low or too high by a majority of the voters”
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BBC: Francis Galton: Victorian scientist and pioneer of eugenics
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2025· 1 entry
Nature: Francis Galton, 1822–1922: A Centenary Appreciation
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2021· 1 entry
Yahoo: Francis Galton pioneered scientific advances in many fields – but also founded the racist pseudoscience of eugenics
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2011· 1 entry
RealClearScience: Francis Galton: Darwin's Cousin, Father of Eugenics
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1911· 2 entries
Died 1911-01-17.
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His archive was donated to University College London by his executors
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1910· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1910).
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1909· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1909).
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1908· 1 entry
Won Darwin–Wallace Medal (1908).
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1906· 1 entry
Visiting a livestock fair, he stumbled upon an intriguing contest
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1902· 1 entry
Won Darwin Medal (1902).
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1901· 1 entry
Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
This resulted in a fierce battle between the followers of Galton's Law of Ancestral Heredity, the biometricians, and those who advocated Mendel's principles
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1888· 3 entries
And demonstrated its application in the study of heredity, anthropology, and psychology
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And three books (Finger Prints, 1892; Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints, 1893; and Fingerprint Directories, 1895), Galton estimated the probability of two persons having the same fingerprint and studied the heritabil
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Galton established a lab in the science galleries of the South Kensington Museum
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1886· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1886).
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1885· 1 entry
Said of his investigation of sweet peas, "I was then blind to what I now perceive to be the simple explanation of the phenomenon
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1884· 1 entry
London hosted the International Health Exhibition
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1883· 1 entry
And set down many of his observations and conclusions in a book, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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1877· 1 entry
And the development of a mathematical framework encompassing regression using human population data during 1885
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1875· 1 entry
Galton began growing sweet peas, and addressed the Royal Institution on his findings on 9 February 1877
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1873· 1 entry
Galton wrote a letter to The Times titled "Africa for the Chinese", where he argued that the Chinese, as a race capable of high civilisation and only temporarily stunted by the recent failures of Chinese dynasties, shoul
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1869· 1 entry
To 1871, he transfused the blood between dissimilar breeds of rabbits, and examined the features of their offspring
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1867· 1 entry
And 1872, and president of the Anthropological Section in 1877 and 1885
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1860· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1860).
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1855· 1 entry
And made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860
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1853· 3 entries
Won Founder’s Medal (1853).
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And the Silver Medal of the French Geographical Society for his pioneering cartographic survey of the region
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The Founder's Medal, the highest award of the Royal Geographical Society, for his explorations and map-making of southwest Africa
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1850· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (1850).
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Joined the Royal Geographical Society, and over the next two years mounted a long and difficult expedition into then little-known South West Africa (now Namibia)
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1846· 1 entry
The French physicist Auguste Bravais (1811–1863) first developed what would become the correlation coefficient
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1845· 1 entry
And 1846, he went to Egypt and travelled up the Nile to Khartoum in the Sudan, and from there to Beirut, Damascus and down to Jordan
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1844· 1 entry
Left him emotionally destitute, though financially independent, and he terminated his medical studies entirely, turning to foreign travel, sport and technical invention
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1843· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College (1840–1843).
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1840· 1 entry
Studied at King's College London (1839–1840).
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1838· 1 entry
Studied at King Edward's School (1836–1838).
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-02-16.
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