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The title of Quetelet Professor is a distinction awarded to professors at Columbia University. It is named after Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, sociologist, and founder of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

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Quetelet professor

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The title of Quetelet Professor is a distinction awarded to professors at Columbia University. It is named after Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian astronomer...

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Adolphe Quetelet

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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician...

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Body mass index

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developed what he called "social physics". Quetelet himself never intended for the index, then called the Quetelet Index, to be used as a means of medical...

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Mario Luis Small

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Mario Luis Small is a sociologist and Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Small's research interests include urban poverty, inequality...

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Social physics

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statistician Adolphe Quetelet, proposed that society be modeled using mathematical probability and social statistics. Quetelet's 1835 book, Essay on Social...

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National Institute for the Promotion of Science

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Charles Wheatstone of King's College, London Adolphe Quetelet, the astronomer royal of Belgium; Professor Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, director of the...

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Germinal Pierre Dandelin

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Lobachevskii, or Gräffe?, American Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 464–466. A. Quetelet, G P Dandelin, Biographie nationale XIV (Brussels,1873), 663–668. C. Runge...

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Genius

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19th-century pioneers in statistics: Carl Friedrich Gauss and Adolphe Quetelet. Gauss discovered the normal distribution (bell-shaped curve): given a...

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Ghent University

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politician Ockert Potgieter (1965-2021), missionary and film director Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), statistician Godfried-Willem Raes (born 1952), composer, performer...

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Joseph Plateau

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In 1829, Plateau submitted his doctoral thesis to his mentor Adolphe Quetelet for advice. It contained only 27 pages but formulated a great number of...

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History of the social sciences

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appropriated by others, most notably the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet. Comte endeavoured to unify history, psychology and economics through the...

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Phenakistiscope

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Brussels: Garnier and Quetelet. 1828. p. 393. Correspondance mathématique et physique (in French). Vol. 6. Brussels: Garnier and Quetelet. 1830. p. 121. Faraday...

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Peter Mark Roget

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(1828). "Correspondance mathématique et physique, publ. Par mm. Garnier et Quetelet. (Royaume des Pays-bas)". "Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain"...

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List of Hofstra University people

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graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Hofstra University. David B. Allison, class of 1987, Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed...

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Willy van Ryckeghem

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at the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the death of Adolphe Quetelet. In 1976, he published together with Geoffrey Maynard A World of Inflation...

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List of University of Alabama at Birmingham people

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Hoda Muthana, ISIS Bride David B. Allison, Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean for Science Eli Capilouto...

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Loren Eiseley

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Alexander Humboldt, Gregor Mendel, Hugo De Vries, W. L. Johannsen, Lambert Quételet, and Alfred Russel Wallace. Critics discussed include Fleeming Jenkin,...

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Adolf

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Democratic Republic Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), French opera singer Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), Belgian astronomer, polymath Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934), French...

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Phenology

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François Antoine Morren, a professor of botany at the University of Liège (Belgium). Morren was a student of Adolphe Quetelet. Quetelet made plant phenological...

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List of minor planets named after people

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(Herbert Hall Turner) 1215 Boyer (Louis Boyer) 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet) 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson) 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert...

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Rehuel Lobatto

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Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, earning his BA in 1812; and then with Adolphe Quetelet (coediting a volume of "Correspondance Mathématique et Physique"). Working...

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