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• Adolphe Quetelet — Infobox Scientist name = Adolphe Quetelet birth date = 22 February 1796 birth place = Ghent death date = 17 February 1874 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = Belgium ethnicity = field = astronomer mathematician statistician… …   Wikipedia

• Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques — (1796 1874)    A mathematician, astronomer, sociologist, and statistician, Adolphe Quetelet was born in Ghent on 22 February 1796. A brilliant student, he earned a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Ghent and, in October 1819, he… …   Historical Dictionary of Brussels

• Quetelet professor — The title of Quetelet professor is a distinction awarded to professors at Columbia University. It is named after Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Recipients The prize is currently held by:… …   Wikipedia

• Quetelet, Adolphe — ▪ Belgian astronomer, sociologist, and statistician in full  Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet  born February 22, 1796, Ghent, Belgium died February 17, 1874, Brussels       Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known… …   Universalium

• Quetelet index — Quete·let index ket( ə) lā or Quete·let s index lāz n BODY MASS INDEX Qué·te·let kā tə lā Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 1874) Belgian astronomer and statistician. Quételet is remembered chiefly for his application of statistics and probability… …   Medical dictionary

• Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques — (1796 1874) A Belgian statistician, author of On Man and the Development of Human Facilities, An Essay on Social Physics (1835), who applied the mathematics of probability to social phenomena and demonstrated the importance of statistics to… …   Dictionary of sociology