Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson

FRS
Karl Pearson; FRS
	Pearson in 1912
Born	Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857; Islington, London, England
Died	27 April 1936 (aged 79); Coldharbour, Surrey, England
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge; University of Heidelberg; University of Berlin;
Known for	Eugenics Principal component analysis; Pearson distribution; Pearson's chi-squared test; Pearson's r; Phi coefficient; Chi-square distribution; Contingency table; Histogram; Kurtosis; Mode; Random walk; The Grammar of Science;
Awards	Darwin Medal (1898); Weldon Memorial Prize (1912);
	Scientific career
Fields	Lawyer, Germanist, eugenicist, mathematician and statistician (primarily the last)
Institutions	University College London; University of Cambridge;
Academic advisors	Francis Galton
Notable students	Philip Hall; John Wishart; Julia Bell; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen; Ethel Elderton

Karl Pearson FRS FRSE (/ˈpɪərsən/; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English eugenicist, mathematician, and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics, and his thought is an example of what is today described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885) and Isaac Todhunter's History of the Theory of Elasticity, Vol. 1 (1886–1893) and Vol. 2 (1893), following their deaths.

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