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

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...

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

Netherlands under the impulse of the astronomer and mathematician Adolphe Quetelet. It was home to a 100 cm (39 in) diameter aperture Zeiss reflector...

Quetelet is a lunar impact crater, approximately 55 kilometers in diameter, that lies in the Moon's northern hemisphere, on the far side from the Earth...

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

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

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...

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

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...

was a student of Abbé Van Brabant. He also attended the lectures of Adolphe Quetelet at the Athénée, as well as those by Dekin on natural history, Laisné...

and disappeared in 1823. Goswin de Stassart, Victor-Joseph de Jouy, Adolphe Quetelet, Frédéric de Reiffenberg, Eugène Van Bemmel, and the poet Philippe...

First coined by Belgian sociologist and criminologist Adolphe Quetelet in the 19th century, the dark figure of crime, hidden figure of crime, or latent...

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...

home by Christoph Florschütz and later studied in Brussels, where Adolphe Quetelet was one of their tutors. Like many other German princes, Albert attended...

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

director Jacob Obrecht (ca.1457–1505), composer of the Renaissance Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist...

Statistical Society of London were Richard Jones, Charles Babbage, Adolphe Quetelet, William Whewell, Thomas Malthus, and William Henry Sykes. Among its...

physics", but that term had been appropriated by others, notably by Adolphe Quetelet. The most important thing to determine was the natural order in which...

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

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

indicated a knowledge of the subject in 1824. He was closely followed by Adolphe Quetelet (1825) who gave some examples. Apparently independently discovered...

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

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

Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. The asteroid was named after Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer and mathematician. Queteleta was discovered on...

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

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