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Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics, and his thought is an example of w…

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science · English eugenicist and polymath (1857–1936) · mathematician · historian of mathematics · statistician · historian · philosopher · biographer · psychologist · eugenicist · also Karl Pearson, Carl Pearson, Pearson

Born 27 March 1857 · Died 27 April 1936 · Q310794

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Awarded Weldon Memorial Prize (1912).
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Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1903).
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2019· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2019Documented record79% confidence

Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,047 times.

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2016· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2016Documented record79% confidence

Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,891 times.

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1963· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1963Documented record79% confidence

Published “<b>Hard and Soft Acids and Bases</b>” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 9,232 times.

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1936· 1 entry

Apr 27, 1936Documented record86% confidence

Died 1936-04-27.

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1928· 1 entry

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And in 1929 Karl married Margaret Victoria Child, a co-worker at the Biometric Laboratory

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1912· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1912Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Weldon Memorial Prize (1912).

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1911· 2 entries

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And contributed significantly to the field of biometrics

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1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Pearson embarked on producing his definitive biography—a three-volume tome of narrative, letters, genealogies, commentaries, and photographs—published in 1914, 1924, and 1930, with much of Pearson's own money paying for

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1903· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1903Documented record84% confidence

Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1903).

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1902· 1 entry

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With his two younger friends, Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht, his first reading suggestion was Pearson's The Grammar of Science

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1901· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1901Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: editor (1901–1936).

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With Weldon and Galton, he founded the journal Biometrika whose object was the development of statistical theory

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Jan 1, 1901Documented record79% confidence

Published “LIII. <i>On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space</i>” in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science — cited 9,574 times.

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1898· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1898Documented record84% confidence

Won Darwin Medal (1898).

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1896· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1896Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1896).

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1894· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1894Documented record75% confidence

“The Scientific Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette”

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1890· 1 entry

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Pearson married Maria Sharpe

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1884· 1 entry

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Was appointed to the Goldsmid Chair of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College London

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1881· 1 entry

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And for the professor at University College London in 1883

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1880· 1 entry

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Pearson first went to Cambridge:

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1879· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1879Documented record84% confidence

Studied at King's College (1875–1879).

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1876· 1 entry

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To study mathematics, graduating in 1879 as Third Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos

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1857· 1 entry

Mar 27, 1857Documented record86% confidence

Born 1857-03-27.

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