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Lionel Sharples Penrose, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972) was an English psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of intellectual disability.
May 18, 2024 · Perhaps more surprising was the distinction of its eminent author: Lionel Penrose, for many years Galton Professor at University College London (UCL) in London, UK. But what did fingerprints, palmistry, and hands have to do with his mathematical, genetic, and psychiatric expertise?
Apr 19, 2024 · Lionel Sharples Penrose was the third Galton Chair at UCL from 1944 until his retirement in 1965, a pioneer in the study of mental illness and a passionate opponent of eugenics.
Professor Lionel Penrose FRS (1898-1972) was the third Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London (UCL). He took up this post in 1945. He retired in 1965.
Jan 22, 1998 · Abstract. Lionel Penrose was born in London. His father, James Doyle Penrose a portrait painter, and his mother, Elizabeth Josephine (née Peckover) Penrose, were both members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) as their ancestors had been for 200 years.
- D.C. Watt
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Lionel Sharples Penrose was Galton professor of eugenics at University College London, and later emeritus professor. He was also director of the Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harperbury Hospital, St Albans, and an outstanding authority on the genetics of mental deficiency.
Dec 1, 1998 · Lionel Sharples Penrose was born on June 11, 1898, the second of four brothers. His father was an artist (a portrait painter); one of his brothers was a sailor, and another, Roland, was also an artist and according to family legend introduced Britain to the work of Picasso.
