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Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (–)
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletFRSF or FRSE (French:[kətlɛ]ⓘ; 22 February &#; 17 February )[1] was a Belgianastronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.[2][3]
He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index.[4] His work on measuring human characteristic to determine the ideal l'homme moyen ("the average man"), played a key role in the origins of eugenics.[5][6][7]
Biography
Adolphe was born in Ghent (which, at the time was a part of the new French Republic). He was the son of François-Augustin-Jacques-Henri Quetelet, a Frenchman and Anne Franço Biography of albert einstein!