Walter Frank Raphael Weldon

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Raphael Weldon

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (born March 15, 1860 in Highgate , London , † April 13, 1906 in Oxford ), commonly known as Raphael Weldon , was an English zoologist and biometrician .

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Walter Frank Raphael Weldon was the son of the chemist Walter Weldon (1832-1885) and his wife Ann Cotton. Stations of his training were University College and King's College London , then St John's College in Cambridge.

In Cambridge Weldon worked from 1882 to 1884 as a “Demonstrator in Zoology” and from 1884 to 1891 as a “University Lecturer in invertebrate morphology”. From 1891 to 1899 he was "Jodrell Professor of Zoology" at University College London, then from 1899 to 1906 "Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy" at the University of Oxford .

On March 13, 1883, he married Florence, the daughter of William Tebb.

Weldon was an important biometrician after the rediscovery of Mendel's rules , which he tried to refute through numerous attempts until his death. Its main competitor was William Bateson , the founder of Mendelism.

In 1890 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society .

Weldon died on April 13, 1906 in Oxford of acute pneumonia . He was buried in Holywell, Oxford.

bibliography

  • K. Pearson: Walter Frank Raphael Weldon. 1860-1906 . In: Biometrika . tape 5 , 1906, pp. 1-52 .
  • WB Provine: The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics . University of Chicago Press, 1971.
  • E. Magnello: Walter Frank Raphael Weldon . In: Statisticians of the Centuries (ed. CC Heyde and E. Seneta) . Springer, New York 2001, p. 261-264 .

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