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Adolphe Quetelet

1796 - 1874

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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian 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 spelled with an accent as Quételet. He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Quetelet has received more than 402,499 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Quetelet is the 34th most popular astronomer (up from 37th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 74th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Astronomer.

Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian mathematician who was most famous for his work in the field of statistics. He is credited with the invention of the body mass index (BMI), which is used to measure a person's body weight relative to their height.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 34 out of 644. Before him are Robert Luther, Caroline Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Johann Gottfried Galle, Wilhelm Schickard, and Martin Ryle. After him are Michel Mayor, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Arthur Eddington, Fred Hoyle, Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 4. Before him are Nicholas I of Russia, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. After him are Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Jakob Steiner, Peter Fendi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, and Carl Loewe. Among people deceased in 1874, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 4. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Millard Fillmore, and Jules Michelet. After him are François Guizot, David Strauss, Johann Philipp Reis, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 68 out of 1,190. Before him are Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Maxime Weygand (1867), Johannes Ockeghem (1410), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), and Carlota of Mexico (1840). After him are John of Gaunt (1340), Quentin Matsys (1466), Jacques Rogge (1942), Jacob Obrecht (1457), Albert Claude (1899), and Paul Delvaux (1897).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Belgium

Among astronomers born in Belgium, Adolphe Quetelet ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), Petrus Plancius (1552), Eric Walter Elst (1936), Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882), Henri Debehogne (1928), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), Marcel Minnaert (1893), and George Van Biesbroeck (1880).

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