# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolphe-quetelet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:07:24.861Z

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description: "Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet."
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birthDate: "1796-02-22"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump