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7 unusual facts about Lancelot Hogben


Death on Deadline

For a parallel case in which the book-within-a-book is much more famous than the Wolfe story itself, a good example is Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million, which provides a vital hint in "The Zero Clue".

Edinburgh University Socialist Society

Experimental zoologist and critic of eugenics, Lancelot Hogben played an active role in the Society in the early 1920s.

Glyn Ceiriog

Additionally, Lancelot Hogben an experimental zoologist and medical statistician, lived there from the late 1950s until his death.

Interglossa

The auxiliary language Interglossa was devised by biologist Lancelot Hogben during World War II, as an attempt to put the international lexicon of science and technology, mainly of Greek and Latin origin, into a language with a purely isolating grammar.

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Lancelot Hogben was coauthor to two of the four which focused on molecular problems involving antibodies and blood transfusions while the remaining two pieces were epidemiological studies done in military settings – one in Italy and one in London – possibly due to Crew’s influence.

University of Guyana

Drayton returned to British Guiana in December 1962, and it was on his advice that Jagan wrote to socialist scholars in the United Kingdom and United States, including Joan Robinson at the University of Cambridge, Paul Baran at Stanford University, and Lancelot Hogben at Birmingham to involve them in the recruitment of staff.

Its first chancellor was Edgar Mortimer Duke and its first Principal and Vice-Chancellor was the British biologist and mathematician, Lancelot Hogben.


John H. Edwards

Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as Hogben's Edwards.


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