Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun francis_galton

1 sense of francis galton

Sense 1
Galton, Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton -- (English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911))
       INSTANCE OF=> scientist -- (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)