The shadow of Sir Francis Galton looms large over UCL. Francis Galton is the most famous and influential Victorian scientist you’ve never heard of. He coined the term eugenics and endowed UCL with his personal collection and archive, along with a bequest which funded the country’s first professorial Chair of Eugenics. Mahmoud Arif, a UCL … Continue reading Francis Galton and the History of Eugenics at UCL