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Adolphe Quetelet

1796 - 1874

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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian-French astronomer, 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. He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Quetelet is the 52nd most popular astronomer (down from 34th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Astronomer.

Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian mathematician who was most famous for his work in the field of statistics. He is credited with the invention of the body mass index (BMI), which is used to measure a person's body weight relative to their height.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 52 out of 644. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Michel Mayor, Arthur Eddington, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, John Michell, and Jérôme Lalande. After him are Édouard Stephan, William Alfred Fowler, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Jan Oort, and Abu Maʿshar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 5. Before him are Nicholas I of Russia, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, and Princess Charlotte of Wales. After him are Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Michael Thonet, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Asher Brown Durand, Jakob Steiner, and Walter Hunt. Among people deceased in 1874, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 5. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, and Howard Staunton. After him are François Guizot, David Strauss, Charles Gleyre, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Johann Philipp Reis, Josiah Warren, and Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 82 out of 1,190. Before him are Johannes Ockeghem (1410), Jacques Rogge (1942), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Agnès Varda (1928), Corneille Heymans (1892), and Father Damien (1840). After him are Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes (919), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacky Ickx (1945), Adrian Willaert (1490), Émile Verhaeren (1855), and Henri Vieuxtemps (1820).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Belgium

Among astronomers born in Belgium, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), Petrus Plancius (1552), Eric Walter Elst (1936), Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882), Henri Debehogne (1928), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), George Van Biesbroeck (1880), and Marcel Minnaert (1893).

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