Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques.jpg
Born 1796
Died 1874
Residence Brussels
Occupation astronomer
mathematician
statistion
sociologist
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membership ESL, AI Hon. Fellow
left 1874 deceased
elected_ESL 1853.03.10
elected_AI 1853



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queteld in 62, 67 Quetelet in 53
astronomer royal

mentioned in Beddoe's On the stature and bulk of man in the British Isles in Memoirs of the ASL Vol. 3 p. 386

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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (French: [kətlɛ]; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

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