Detail from an Ancient Greek red figure amphora of Theseus killing Procrustes, Louvre Museum. Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain Procrustes (literally the ...

Dr. Sadeep Shrestha, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, was recently awarded the Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health. This endowment pays tribute to Lambert Adolphe Quetelet for his ...

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize a “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional ...

The calculation of BMI (Body Mass Index) was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician born in 1796. His proposal was that people’s weight could be deemed as relative to an ideal weight ...