# Adolphe Quetelet
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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSFor FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] (listen); 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.
== Biography ==
Adolphe was born in Ghent (which, at the time was a part of the new French Republic).
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