Francis Galton

Francis Galton : biography 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 He also discovered the properties of the bivariate normal distribution and its relationship to...

Francis Galton

Francis Galton : biography 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 This approach was later taken up enthusiastically by Karl Pearson and W.F.R. Weldon; together,...

Francis Galton

Francis Galton : biography 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 He became very active in the British Association for the Advancement of Science, presenting...

Francis Galton

Francis Galton : biography 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 Galton recognised that cultural circumstances influenced the capability of a civilization's citizens, and their...

Francis Galton

Francis Galton : biography 16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 Galton was by many accounts a child prodigy — he was reading by...

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin : biography 21 December 1842 - 8 February 1921 Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin ( 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921)...

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin : biography 21 December 1842 - 8 February 1921 In Moscow, Kropotkin had developed an interest in the condition of the peasantry, and...

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin : biography 21 December 1842 - 8 February 1921 In 1881 shortly after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II he was expelled from...

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin : biography 21 December 1842 - 8 February 1921 Kropotkin did not deny the presence of competitive urges in humans, but believed that...

George Everest

George Everest : biography 4 July 1790 - 1 December 1866 Colonel Sir George Everest ( 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866)...