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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.
Apr 19, 2024 · Lionel Penrose: Scientist, Geneticist, and Dedicated Opponent of Eugenics. 19 April 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Lionel Penrose was represented poorly in the 2020 chair’s report for UCL Eugenics Inquiry (Solanke 2020), which was submitted without the approval of the Inquiry’s committee. That report presented small scraps of material to imply suspicions about Penrose as an advocate of eugenics.
Lionel Penrose (1898-1972) was an important leader during the mid-20th century decline of eugenics and the development of modern medical genetics. However, historians have paid little attention to his radical theoretical challenges to mainline eugenic concepts of mental disease.
Jul 22, 1998 · Abstract. The method of improving the human genetic constitution divides into positive and negative eugenics. Positive eugenics is the policy of encouraging and promoting the procreation of those with socially desirable faculties and abilities.
For half a century Lionel Penrose pursued a distinguished professional career as a scientist, physician and teacher, mainly in the area of human genetics, and with special and enduring interests in problems of mental retardation. Throughout the 1930s he was Research Director at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution for the
