# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lancelot-hogben
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:19.323Z

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name: "Lancelot Hogben"
slug: "lancelot-hogben"
description: "Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and wrote popular books on science, mathematics and language in his later career."
tagline: "British zoologist, statistician, science writer (1895–1975)"
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  isoCode: "GB"
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birthDate: "1895-12-09"
deathDate: "1975-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump