Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (born 1796)

Adolphe Quetelet

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (1796–1874)

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE 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…