Adolphe Quetelet, a bridge builder

As the founder of statistics, Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) played a pioneering role in the evolution of government institutions and scientific research in 19th-century Belgium. Schamper journalist Selin Bakistanli interviewed Isabelle Devos, a history professor in the Department of History at Ghent University and coordinator of the Quetelet Center, about how important this man was in the development of statistical data collection and interpretation.

Read the full article here (in Dutch).