Lancelot Hogben  

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Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a versatile British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He is best known for developing the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacking the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and popularising books on science, mathematics and language in his later career.

Works

• Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems (1918)
• An Introduction to Recent Advances in Comparative Physiology (1924) with Frank R. Winton
• The Pigmentary Effector System. A review of the physiology of colour response (1924)
• Comparative Physiology (1926)
• Comparative Physiology of Internal Secretion (1927)
• The Nature of Living Matter (1930)
• Genetic Principles in Medical and Social Science (1931)
• Mathematics for the Million (1936)
• The Retreat from Reason (1936) Conway Memorial Lecture 20 May 1936
• Science for the Citizen: A Self-Educator Based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery (1938)
• Political Arithmetic: A Symposium of Population Studies (1938) editor
• Dangerous Thoughts (1939)
• Author in Transit (1940)
• Principles of Animal Biology (1940)
• Interglossa: A Draft of an Auxiliary for a Democratic world order, Being an Attempt to Apply Semantic Principles to Language Design (1943)
• The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer (1944) editor
• An Introduction to Mathematical Genetics (1946)
• History of the Homeland The Story of the British Background: by Henry Hamilton (1947) editor, No. 4 of Primers for the Age of Plenty
• The New Authoritarianism (1949) Conway Memorial Lecture 1949
• From Cave Painting To Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication (1949)
• Chance and Choice by Cardpack and Chessboard (1950)
• Man Must Measure: The Wonderful World of Mathematics (1955)
• Statistical theory. The relationship of probability, credibility and error. An examination of the contemporary crisis in statistical theory from a behaviorist viewpoint (1957)
• The Wonderful World Of Energy (1957)
• The Signs of Civilisation (1959)
• The Wonderful World Of Communication (1959)
• Mathematics In The Making (1960)
• Essential World English (1963) with Jane Hogben and Maureen Cartwright
• Science in Authority: Essays (1963)
• The Mother Tongue (1965)
• Wales for the Welsh — A Tale of War and Peace with Notes for those who Teach or Preach (1967)
• Beginnings and Blunders or Before Science Began (1970)
• The Vocabulary Of Science (1970) with Maureen Cartwright
• Astronomer Priest and Ancient Mariner (1972)
• Maps, Mirrors and Mechanics (1973)
• Columbus, the Cannon Ball and the Common Pump (1974)
• How The World Was Explored, editor, with Marie Neurath and J. A. Lauwerys