Charles Galton Darwin

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Charles Galton Darwin was a British physicist and eugenicist, grandson of Charles Darwin, known for his work in quantum mechanics and for directing the National Physical Laboratory.

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instanceOf British physicist
academic
eugenicist
human
physicist
scientific administrator
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
surface form: Fellow of the Royal Society
birthDate 1887-12-19
child Cecily Darwin
Francis Darwin
surface form: Francis William Darwin

George Pember Darwin
Henry Galton Darwin
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 1962-12-31
educatedAt Marlborough College
Trinity College, Cambridge
employer National Physical Laboratory
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh
familyName Darwin
father George Howard Darwin
fieldOfWork eugenics
physics
quantum mechanics
statistical mechanics
genre popular science
scientific literature
givenName Charles
grandfather Charles Darwin
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
mother Maud du Puy
name Charles Galton Darwin self-link
nationality British
notableIdea application of statistical methods in quantum theory
hereditarian and eugenic views on human population
notableWork Darwin–Fowler method
The Next Million Years
papers on quantum theory
occupation physicist
research director
university teacher
placeOfBirth Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge
positionHeld Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh
director of the National Physical Laboratory
relative Francis Galton
spouse Katharine Pember

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The Next Million Years author Charles Galton Darwin
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this entity surface form: Charles Galton Darwin is grandson of Charles Darwin
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this entity surface form: Sir Charles Galton Darwin
George Pember Darwin hasGrandfather Charles Galton Darwin
George Pember Darwin hasRelative Charles Galton Darwin
Katharine Pember spouse Charles Galton Darwin
G. H. Darwin hasChild Charles Galton Darwin
Maud du Puy Darwin motherOf Charles Galton Darwin