Quetelet prize winners

 Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and statistician. Quetelet was born at Ghent and studied at the school and university there. He succeeded to convince the government to build an astronomical observatory in Brussels, built in 1928. His most influential book is ‘Treatise on Man’ where he describes the concept of the “average man”.

Every year, Institutional Members of the Adolphe Quetelet Society offer a prize to a student finishing a Master degree in which they produced statistical work with biometric applications to the best standards desirable for someone at their level of formation and experience. The website of the Quetelet Society provides the rules for being awarded.

The prize winners were