Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet
1796–1874
Belgian statistician. Astronomer, Brussels Royal Observatory, 1828–74. Secretary, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1834–74. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1839.
Sources
BNB
DSB.
Bibliography
BNB: Biographie nationale publiée par l’académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 44 vols., including 16 supplements. Brussels: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt [and others]. 1866–1986.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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