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Noun Named Entity
SYL
Francis Galton
EN
English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911) WordNet 3.0
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IS A
EN
scientist
Homo sapiens
AWARD RECEIVED
EN
knight bachelor
Royal Medal
EN
Darwin–Wallace Medal
EN
Copley Medal
EN
Darwin Medal
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CAUSE OF DEATH
EN
tuberculosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
EN
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
EN
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk Familjebok
EN
Obalky knih.cz
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
William hopkins
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Karl Pearson
EDUCATED AT
EN
Cambridge University
EN
King's College London
Trinity College
EN
King Edward's School, Birmingham
FAMILY NAME
EN
Galton
FATHER
EN
Samuel Tertius Galton
FIELD OF WORK
EN
anthropology
EN
probability theory
GIVEN NAME
Francis
HONORIFIC PREFIX
sir
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
English
MANNER OF DEATH
EN
cyclohexylamine
MEMBER OF
EN
Royal Society
Royal geographical society
NATIVE LANGUAGE
EN
English
OCCUPATION
EN
statistician
EN
anthropologist
EN
writer
EN
geneticist
EN
geographer
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PLACE OF BIRTH
Birmingham
PLACE OF BURIAL
EN
Claverdon
PLACE OF DEATH
Surrey
RELATIVE
Charles Darwin
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
STUDENT
Karl Pearson
WRITING LANGUAGE
EN
English
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SYL
Francis Galton

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