who is francis galton
Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ËfrÉËnsÉªs ËÉ¡ÉËltÉn/; 16 February 1822 â 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.