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    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...
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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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  • (monk) Franciscus Vieta (lawyer) Giordano Vitale (soldier) Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (evolutionary biologist) Johannes Werner (parish priest) Caspar Wessel...
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    _{0}=0.5} Pearson was joined by Sir Francis Galton and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon in cautioning scientists to be wary of spurious correlation, especially...
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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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  • summarizes the results of a number of his papers and inspires Karl Pearson, Raphael Weldon and others to develop the mathematics and statistics of inheritance...
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    W.F. Raphael Weldon, the first scientist supported by the committee worked with his wife, Florence Tebb Weldon, who was his computer. Weldon used logarithms...
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    College London (the 'Godless Institute of Gower Street') Lankester taught Raphael Weldon (1860–1906), who went on to succeed him in the chair at UCL. Another...
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  • Smith Karl Pearson Francis Galton Pierre-Simon Laplace Jerzy Neyman Raphael Weldon Charles Darwin William Sealy Gosset Harald Cramér L. H. C. Tippett Emil...
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    professorship of Geometry at Gresham College; here he met Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, a zoologist who had some interesting problems requiring quantitative...
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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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  • Vaughan-Sawyer, gynaecological surgeon Kenneth Walton, pathologist Raphael Weldon (Medicine, left 1877), evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...
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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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  • foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906): English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...
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    Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, an English evolutionary zoologist and biometrician. Weldon was a successful chemist and developed the Weldon process to produce...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Cambridge. She married evolutionary biologist Raphael Weldon in March 1883. Florence joined with Weldon’s work on biological variation in shrimps and crabs...
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    John Thomas Towson, geographer and early photographer Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, zoologist and biometrician Richard Francis Weymouth, philologist and...
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    Bateson became famous as the outspoken Mendelian antagonist of Walter Raphael Weldon, his former teacher, and of Karl Pearson who led the biometric school...
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  • 1901, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Bust of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Bust of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson...
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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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  • the battle against the biometricians Karl Pearson and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, with Hurst generating much data from experimental crosses of different...
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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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  • transmitted it to Francis Galton; it is now lost. Pearson and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon thought highly of the work, but Galton had reservations. Donald A. MacKenzie...
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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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  • correlation tables in 1917 based on a series of mice breeding experiments by Raphael Weldon, a colleague of Pearson's at University College. Her correlation tables...
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