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Francis Galton centenary
Author(s) -
Champkin Julian
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00507.x
Subject(s) - galton's problem , cousin , darwin (adl) , genealogy , history , philosophy , biology , computer science , mathematics , statistics , archaeology , software engineering
This year marks the centenary of the death of the great Victorian scientist Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911). Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, and wildly eccentric, is a key and curious figure in the founding of modern statistics – and of several other sciences as well. We celebrate the life and achievements of an extraordinary man.