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Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
Raphael Weldon
Born(1860-03-15)15 March 1860
London, England
Died13 April 1906(1906-04-13) (aged 46)
Oxford, England
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, biometry
InstitutionsSt John's College, Cambridge
University College London
Oxford University
Academic advisorsFrancis Maitland Balfour

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon FRS (15 March 1860 – 13 April 1906), was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. He was the joint founding editor of Biometrika, with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.

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Biometrika was established in 1901 by Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and Raphael Weldon to promote the study of biometrics. The history of Biometrika is covered...

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Psychology, and Medical Science.) It is named in honor of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, former Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University. It was established...

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motivation for this work was provided by the zoologist Walter Frank Raphael Weldon who had speculated in 1893 (in Tarter and Lock) that asymmetry in the...

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debate between the biometricians, who supported Galton's ideas, as Raphael Weldon, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, who...

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to the entrance examination. Karl Pearson's obituary of Raphael Weldon (p. 8) refers to Weldon "preparing (c. 1877) for Little-Go and the London Preliminary...

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the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law Weldon Memorial Prize Raphael Weldon (1860–1906) To the person who has published the most noteworthy...

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characteristics within populations. Their leaders, Karl Pearson and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, followed in the tradition of Francis Galton, who had focused on measurement...

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Tebb Weldon, was part of this group and provided computations relating to biology and evidence for evolution, working with her husband, W.F. Raphael Weldon...

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List of contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography

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the DNB) William Foster (Signing as W. F. in the DNB) Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (Signing as W. F. R. W. in the DNB) William Fellows Sedgwick (Signing...

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Plymouth Athenaeum

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William Bateson

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Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1890

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Justinian Harris Teall (1849–1924) Richard Thorne (1841–1899) Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906) "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived...

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Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire

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Wars. From 1901 he conducted a series of experiments (working under Raphael Weldon) on the hybridisation of mice in the laboratory. He was author of the...

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William Tebb

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College, Cambridge and worked closely with her husband the biologist Raphael Weldon. His other daughter, Mary Christine Tebb, was a biochemist and married...

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