Francis Galton
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton by Charles Wellington Furse, given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1954
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an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician and a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics, and scientific racism.
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Born
16 February 1822 Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Died
17 January 1911 (aged 88) Haslemere, Surrey, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Eugenics Behavioural genetics Regression toward the mean Standard deviation Anticyclone Isochrone map Weather map Galton board Galton distribution Galton–Watson process Galton's problem Galton's whistle
Fields
Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Statistics
Alma mater
King's College, London Trinity College, Cambridge
Awards
Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal (1853) Royal Medal (1886) Huxley Memorial Medal (1901) Darwin–Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908) Copley Medal (1910)
Institutions
Meteorological Council Royal Geographical Society
Academic advisors
William Hopkins
adultbasic
Britain
era
1800+
Notable students
Karl Pearson
Resting place
Claverdon, Warwickshire, England