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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (22 February 1796–17 February 1874) was a contemporary of Gauss who also directed an observatory, in Brussels, Belgium, 300 miles to the west of Göttingen. Born in Ghent, then part of Napoleon’s French Republic, to a city agent, François-Augustin-Jacques-Henri Quetelet, and Anne Françoise Vandervelde, Adolphe lost his father when he was only seven years old. He channeled that loss into his studies.
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Read, C. (2016). The Times of Francis Galton. In: The Econometricians. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-34137-2_6
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