When1: 1869
When2: 1883
Who: Francis Galton [Galton, Francis]
What: biologist
Where: England
works\ Hereditary Genius [1869]; English Men of Science [1874]; Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development [1883]
Detail: He lived 1822 to 1911 and studied human mental-property and physical-property genetics. He collected and classified fingerprints {fingerprinting}. He studied human individual differences, using imagery, psychological questionnaires, twin life histories, and family and talented-people educational backgrounds. He developed the correlation coefficient. He participated in scientific exploration to unexplored Africa.
He discovered air pressure systems and invented weather maps [1875]. He invented a polyhedron {Galton's Polyhedron} of possible structural forms to which organisms can jump. More intellectually gifted people have less vivid imagery [1883].
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