Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian...

The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine (or incorrectly Dalton board), is a device invented by Francis Galton to demonstrate...

The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names...

mathematics. The Galton Laboratory was financed by Francis Galton. On his death in 1911, Francis Galton left his estate to the University of London to fund...

distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been...

had a son named Francis Galton (1822–1911) who would go on to be a famous proponent of eugenics. Galton had another son, Theodore Galton (1784–1810), although...

from the professional class and included eminent scientists such as Francis Galton. The Society engaged in advocacy and research to further their eugenic...

New York: Allyn and Bacon. p. 5 "Francis Galton, Sir." World of Sociology. 2 vols. Gale Group, 2001. "Francis Galton." Science and Its Times, 5: 1800–1899...

is the inability to visualize. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, but has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon...

by year of birth and grouped into generations.) The relationship to Francis Galton, and to his immediate ancestors, is also given. (Note, however, that...

domestic cats, and is used in their training. It was invented in 1876 by Francis Galton and is mentioned in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development...

2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012. "Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Darwin". Galton.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved...

estimation in the classification procedure. The English statistician Francis Galton (1822–1911) made the first attempt at creating a standardized test for...

University Press, 1981). Francis Galton, "Hereditary talent and character", Macmillan's Magazine 12 (1865): 157–166 and 318–327; Francis Galton, Hereditary genius:...

(also known as composite photographs) is a technique invented by Sir Francis Galton in the 1880s after a suggestion by Herbert Spencer for registering photographs...

described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense...

individuals. Number forms were first documented and named in 1881 by Francis Galton in "The Visions of Sane Persons". Ordinal-linguistic personification...

which nothing is lost." The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton (1822–1911) and James McKeen Cattell. They had advocated the analysis...

from Blakeney. His unusual first name is a tribute to his relative Sir Francis Galton.[citation needed] Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef. After...

environment. Behavioural genetics was founded as a scientific discipline by Francis Galton in the late 19th century, only to be discredited through association...

mentally retarded with the term intellectual disability in federal law. Francis Galton (1822–1911) was a pioneer in investigating both eminent human achievement...

prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society, and the father of Francis Galton the eminent Victorian scientist. He was born in the area of Duddeston...

which he thought contained determinants (genes). The English polymath Francis Galton, supposing that undesirable traits such as club foot and criminality...

square diagram. A previously-unpublished three-factor diagram by Sir Francis Galton existing in the Bateson correspondence in Cambridge University Library...

average person. However, the construct of grit dates back at least to Francis Galton, and the ideals of persistence and tenacity have been understood as...

It was developed by Karl Pearson from a related idea introduced by Francis Galton in the 1880s, and for which the mathematical formula was derived and...

"psycho-physiognomy". During the late 19th century, English psychometrician Sir Francis Galton attempted to define physiognomic characteristics of health, disease...

publicise the importance of inheritance and leave decisions to individuals. Francis Galton named this field of study "eugenics" in 1883,[VIII] after Darwin's death...

across individuals. Number forms were first documented and named by Sir Francis Galton in his The Visions of Sane Persons. Later research has identified them...

version of the Gauss–Markov theorem. The term "regression" was coined by Francis Galton in the 19th century to describe a biological phenomenon. The phenomenon...