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

mortality, with the risk increasing with distance from the 20–25 range. Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist...

as dust on a mirror. The phenomenon is named after the astronomer Adolphe Quetelet, who observed and explained it. A slight variation of this setup is...

singer Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), Belgian astronomer, polymath Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934), French obstetrician and member of parliament Adolphe Sax (1814–1894)...

the discs on 7 May 1833. Publisher and Plateau's doctoral adviser Adolphe Quetelet claimed to have received a working model to present to Faraday as early...

replaced this sexual connotation with a reference to martyrdom. In 1836 Adolphe Quetelet wrote: J'ai cru remarquer aussi une fréquence plus grande de ces météores...

formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots. In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations....

earlier used the terms middle-most value in 1869 and the medium in 1880. Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), another important founder of statistics, introduced the...

subcultures, or low levels of education can predispose people to crime. Adolphe Quetelet used data and statistical analysis to study the relationship between...

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

at the University of Liège (Belgium). Morren was a student of Adolphe Quetelet. Quetelet made plant phenological observations at the Royal Observatory...

honor of the French mathematician Germinal Pierre Dandelin, though Adolphe Quetelet is sometimes given partial credit as well. The Dandelin spheres can...

Pierre François Verhulst in the 1830s and 1840s, under the guidance of Adolphe Quetelet; see Logistic function § History for details. In his earliest paper...

atmospheric phenomenon by many scientists (Alexander von Humboldt, Adolphe Quetelet, Julius Schmidt) until the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli...

growth by adjusting the exponential growth model, under the guidance of Adolphe Quetelet. Verhulst first devised the function in the mid 1830s, publishing a...

theory included Laplace, Sylvestre Lacroix (1816), Littrow (1833), Adolphe Quetelet (1853), Richard Dedekind (1860), Helmert (1872), Hermann Laurent (1873)...

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

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

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

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

in 1826 by King William I of the Netherlands under the impulse of Adolphe Quetelet. It was home to a 100 cm (39 in) diameter aperture Zeiss reflector...

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

sub-schools study the spatial distribution of crimes and offenders (see Adolphe Quetelet, who discovered that crimes rates are relatively constant, and the...

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

It was principally organised by Belgian astronomer and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who envisioned a standardisation of European units of measurement...

(see: law of universal gravitation). Social science was pioneered by Adolphe Quetelet and Auguste Comte who developed the idea of studying behavior with...

1866) was a French lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to...

mathematician, and astronomer Adolphe Quetelet, who wrote in the 1830s of l'homme moyen – the average man. Quetelet postulated that one could take the...

international 'great demographers' like Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), William Farr (1807–1883), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon (1821–1883) and his son Jacques...

Lambert Murphy (1885–1954), American tenor Lambert Quetelet (1796–1874), alternate name of Adolphe Quételet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician...