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Lionel Penrose

British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician, and chess theorist (*1898 – †1972)

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Psychiatry
Pediatrics
Mathematics
Human Genetics
Chess

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22 works

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    Heredity and environment in human affairs / by L.S. Penrose.

    Lionel Penrose | Date: 1955
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    The Galton Laboratory : its work and aims / by L.S. Penrose.

    Lionel Penrose | Date: 1949
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    The influence of heredity on disease / by L.S. Penrose.

    Lionel Penrose | Date: 1934
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    Recent advances in human genetics / edited by L.S. Penrose with the assistance of Helen Lange Brown.

    | Date: 1961
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    The biology of mental defect / by Lionel S. Penrose.

    Lionel Penrose | Date: 1949
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Genetics, Medical
Intellectual Disability
United Kingdom
History, 20th Century
Genetics
Eugenics

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