Adelphi Genetics Forum
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from English Eugenics Society)
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The Galton Institute is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are "to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology".
[edit]
Prominent members
- John Maynard Keynes, Director 1937–1944, V.P. 1937
- Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister between 1937 and 1940
- Richard Titmuss
- William Beveridge
- David Coleman
- Leonard Arthur, tried for murder in 1981 but acquitted
- Arthur Balfour
- Alfred Ploetz, Vice-president (1916)
- Julian Huxley, Vice-president (1937–44), President (1959–62)
- Dr Florence Barrett
- Paul Blanshard
- Walter Bodmer
- Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
- Chris Brand
- Cyril Burt
- John Cockburn
- Charles D'Arcy
- Charles Galton Darwin, son of George Darwin
- Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin
- Charles Davenport, Vice President (1931)
- Mary Dendy
- Robert Geoffrey Edwards
- Havelock Ellis
- Hans Eysenck
- Ronald Fisher
- Francis Galton, founding President and after whom the institute was eventually renamed
- Charles Goethe
- Ezra Gosney
- Madison Grant
- Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder, ′The Lord Holder′, President (1935-1949)
- David Starr Jordan, Vice President (1916, 1931)
- Franz Josef Kallmann
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Richard Lynn
- James Meade
- Peter Medawar
- Naomi Mitchison
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Frederick Osborn
- Karl Pearson
- Roger Pearson
- Margaret Pyke
- Margaret Sanger
- Eliot Slater
- Marie Stopes
- James Mourilyan Tanner
- Alice Vickery
- Frank Yates
- Sybil Neville-Rolfe
[edit]
See also
- American Eugenics Society
- Amy Barrington
- Eugenics
- Human Betterment Foundation
- Arthur Jensen
- Walter Kistler
- Glayde Whitney
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Adelphi Genetics Forum" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
