Charles Davenport

(noun)

Charles Benedict Davenport (1866–1944) was a prominent American eugenicist and biologist. He was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement, which was directly involved in the sterilization of around 60,000 "unfit" Americans and strongly influenced the Holocaust in Europe.

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Examples of Charles Davenport in the following topics:

  • The Eugenics Movement

    • The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution.
    • American biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1911.
    • A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton founded field of Eugenics and promoted the improvement of the human gene pool through selective breeding.

  • The Eugenics

    • The Eugenics Records Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution.

  • Alkalosis

    • A Davenport Diagram, as shown, is a graphical tool developed by Allan Jones Davenport that allows a clinician or investigator to describe blood bicarbonate concentrations and blood pH following a respiratory and/or metabolic acid-base disturbance.

  • Charles X and the July Revolution

  • Glycocalyx

  • Flagella

  • Fimbrae

  • Glycocalyx and Capsule

  • Lysosomes and Peroxisomes

  • Microfilaments