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PROF. KARL PEARSON, of University College, London, has been awarded the Rudolf Virchow medal by the Berlin Gesellschaft f\:ur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte. The award is made in recognition of Prof. Pearson's conspicuous services for the advancement of the study of human biology, and especially his pioneer work in the field of biometrics and his contributions to the study of eugenics, in which he has carried on and extended the work of the late Francis Galton. In conveying the announcement of the award, Prof. Eugen Fischer, president of the society, recalls the fact that up to the present the only recipients of the medal have been von der Steinen and Koch-Grunberg, the ethnologists; Olshausen and Heger, the archseologists; Toldt and Hans Virchow, anatomists; and lastly Erwin Baur, the geneticist. The value of the award is enhanced not only by its significance as a recognition of the international character of science, but also by the fact that on this, the first occasion on which the award has been made to a scientific worker outside the boundaries of Central European countries, the choice has fallen on one who is British. This, however, is not the only tribute which has been paid recently to the position in international scientific circles held by Prof. Pearson. The Sixth International Congress of Genetics, when assembled last summer in plenary session at Ithaca, New York, in conveying cordial greetings to Prof. Pearson and “best wishes for his health and long success and satisfaction in his scientific work”, acknowledged the great indebtedness of the science of genetics to the statistical methods developed by him and now universally used.
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Honour for Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S. Nature 130, 838 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130838b0
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