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Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean.

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rdfs:comment	Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean.
foaf:name	Galton, Francis Sir Francis Galton
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dc:description	English Anthropologist and polymath
academic advisor	Hopkins, William
alma mater	King's College London University of Cambridge
birth date	1822-02-16(xsd:dateTime)
birth place	Birmingham
birth year	1822-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
death date	1911-01-17(xsd:dateTime)
death place	Haslemere Surrey
death year	1911-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
field	dbpedia:Sociology dbpedia:Anthropology dbpedia:Polymath
known for	dbpedia:Bean_machine dbpedia:Eugenics dbpedia:Regression_toward_the_mean dbpedia:Standard_deviation dbpedia:Weather_map
notable student	Karl Pearson
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Galton_1850s.jpg?width=300
is academic advisor of	Karl Pearson
is influenced by of	Cesare Lombroso Fiske, John Charles Spearman Lewis Madison Terman Walter Frank Raphael Weldon Georges Vacher de Lapouge
is notable student of	Hopkins, William

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