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The dark history of how eugenics was developed in Britain

'"I want to look at history and the history of science and to bring in the idea of nuance," she added. '

'Most often associated with Nazi atrocities, eugenics was a theory developed by Victorian scientist and statistician Sir Francis Galton. ', "When he died in 1911, Galton endowed UCL with his personal collection of archives, and a bequest which funded the country's first professorial Chair of Eugenics."

'University College London (UCL) recently launched an urgent investigation into reports that a senior academic secretly ran a conference on eugenics at the institution for three years. '

'Scientific racism as a whole and eugenics in particular were confined to the Nazis," she said. '


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