ランスロット・ホグベン
Besides editing The Loom of Language by his friend Frederick Bodmer, he created an international language, Interglossa, as ‘a draft of an auxiliary for a democratic world order’. During World War II Hogben had responsibility for the British Army s medical statistics. He worked on endocrinology and used the Xenopus frog.He has published a series of important papers on the effect of hormones on the pigmentary effector system and on the reproductive cycle of vertebrates, and has worked on many branches of comparative physiology. He then took a position at the University of Guyana. For a tribute to Mathematics for the Million from Fields medallist David Mumford Some of the correspondence between Hogben and R.
S. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936.
While the job in South Africa was attractive Hogben s antipathy to the country s racial policies drove him to leave. In 1930 he moved to the London School of Economics, in a chair for social biology. Fisher is available online .
B. His health collapsed after maltreatment and he was released in 1917. After a year s convalescence he took lecturing positions in London universities, moving in 1922 to the University of Edinburgh and its Animal Breeding Research Department.
ランスロット・トマス・ホグベン （1895年12月9日 - 1975年8月22日）は、イギリスの動物学者、遺伝学者である。科学、数学、そして言語の啓蒙書の執筆者としてよく知られる。独立労働党の活動家、マルクス主義者、人工言語の作者（en:Interglossa）である。1917年に、数学者、統計学者、そしてフェミニストのen:Enid Charlesと結婚した。en:Julian Huxleyおよびen:J. He then went to McGill University, and in 1927 to a zoology chair at the University of Cape Town.
The citation read Distinguished for his work in Experimental Zoology, especially in respect of the mechanism of colour change in Amphibia and Reptilia. Haldaneとともに『Journal of Experimental Biology』の創刊者である。 ポーツマスに生まれ、ハンプシャーのサウスシーで育った。 両親は、en:Plymouth Brethrenであった。彼は若くして家の宗教から離れた。一家はロンドンに移り、彼は同地のTottenham County Schoolに通い、en:Trinity College, Cambridgeで医学生として遺伝学を学んだ。1915年に学位を取得した。社会主義者としての確信を得ていたので、大学のen:Fabian Societyの名称Socialist Societyに改めた。 第1次世界大戦中は平和主義者で、1916年、良心的兵役拒否者として収監された。;this was after six months working with the Red Cross in France, and his deliberate return to Cambridge.
In 1932 he with Haldane, Huxley and geneticist Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973) founded a Society for Experimental Biology. According to Gary Werskey, Hogben was the only one of the four not holding some eugenicist ideas.
These were big ambitious books. He was Mason Professor of Zoology at the University of Birmingham 1941-1947 and professor of medical statistics there 1947-1961, when he retired.
Hogben produced two best-selling works of popular science, Mathematics for the Million (1936) and Science for the Citizen (1938). This had direct application to pregnancy testing.
A. More recently he has made substantial contributions to genetics, especially with regard to man. The social biology position at the LSE was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and when it withdrew funding Hogben moved, becoming Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen in 1937.
While at Aberdeen Hogben developed an interest in language.
