150th anniversary of Quetelet’s death
150 years ago, on February 17, 1874, Adolphe Quetelet, founder and first director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, passed away. He was one of the best-known Belgians of his time. A keen statistician, he is best known as the inventor of the Quetelet index, better known today as the BMI (Body Mass Index). Books have been written about this [...]