Lancelot Hogben, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lancelot Hogben

British zoologist, statistician, science writer

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1895

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1975

Profession: writer, mathematician, zoologist, statistician, geneticist, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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