1. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon FRS, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry.
11 Facts About Raphael Weldon
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Raphael Weldon was the joint founding editor of Biometrika, with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.
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On 13 March 1883, Raphael Weldon married Florence Tebb, daughter of the social reformer William Tebb.
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Raphael Weldon died in 1906 of acute pneumonia, and is buried at Holywell Church, Oxford.
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Raphael Weldon's work was centred on the development of a fuller understanding of marine biological phenomena and selective death rates of these organisms.
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In 1889 Raphael Weldon succeeded Lankester in the Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London, and as curator of what is the Grant Museum of Zoology, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1890.
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Raphael Weldon's interests were changing from morphology to problems in variation and organic correlation.
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Raphael Weldon was one of the first scientists to provide evidence of stabilizing and directional selection in natural populations.
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Bateson, who had been taught by Raphael Weldon, took a very strong line against the biometricians.
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In 1894, Raphael Weldon rolled a set of 12 dice 26,306 times.
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Raphael Weldon collected the data in part, 'to judge whether the differences between a series of group frequencies and a theoretical law, taken as a whole, were or were not more than might be attributed to the chance fluctuations of random sampling.