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Eugenics 1901-30 Timeline

[The materials are mainly drawn from Kevles 1985, chh. 2-8, Sheila Weiss's chapter 2, and W.H.Schneider's chapter 3 of The Wellborn Science (ed. by Mark B. Adams); arranged by S. Uchii.]

See also Eugenics becomes popular.


Eugenics Timeline, 1901-1930

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Britain
USA
Other
1900
Mendelian Laws of genetics, rediscovered
1901 ª@ ª@ ª@
1902 Biometrika ª@ ª@
1903 ª@ ª@ Schallmayer, Vererbung und Auslese im Lebenslauf der Voelker
1904 ª@ Davenport, Biological Research Station, Cold Spring Harbor

Binet-Simon intelligence test

Ploetz in Germany founded Archiv fuer Rassen-und Gessellschaftsbiologie

1905 ª@ ª@ Ploetz founded Gesellschaft fuer Rassenhygiene
1906 ª@ ª@ ª@
1907 Eugenics Education Society (later, Eugenics Society, 1926) State Sterilization Law, Indiana, and 15 states follow until 1917 Internationale Gessellschaft fuer Rassenhygiene
1908 ª@ Goddard introduced Binet-Simon test into USA ª@
1909 Eugenics Review ª@ ª@
1910 ª@ Davenport, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor ª@
1911

Galton died

Pearson, Galton Eugenics Professor

Davenport, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics ª@
1912

1st International Eugenics Congress, in London

The Treasury of Human Inheritance

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1913 Mental-Deficiency Act ª@ Deutsche Gessellschaft fuer Rassenhygiene
1914
World War I began
1915 ª@ ª@ ª@
1916 ª@

Terman's revision of Binet-Simon test at Stanford; "I.Q." introduced

Eugenical News

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1917 ª@ Army testing program (headed by R. Yerkes) ª@
1918
World War I ended (November)
1919 After the war, Haldane, (Julian) Huxley, and Hogben began the anti-mainline assault against eugenics. H.S.Jennings (in USA) later joined the British colleagues in the anti-mainline assault. C.Richet, La Selection Humaine
1920 ª@

The Fitter Families contests began

Laughlin (Eugenic Record Office) got involved in the House Committee on Immigration

"social hygiene" became dominant in French eugenics
1921 ª@

Emergency Restriction Act (for Immigration)

National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Examining in the United States Army

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1922 ª@ ª@ Margaret Sanger visited Japan
1923 ª@ American Eugenics Society

Fritz Lenz, chair of Rassenhygiene in Munich

Lenz, Grundriss der Menschliche Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene (with Erwin Bauer and Eugen Fischer)

1924 ª@

Immigration Act

Sterilization Law in Virginia, and Buck vs. Bell Case began (eventually the Supreme Court upheld the Law in 1927)

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1925 Annales of Eugenics ª@ ª@
1926 ª@ ª@ Deutscher Bund fuer Volksaufartung und Erbkunde
1927 ª@ ª@ Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fuer Anthoropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
1928 ª@ ª@ ª@
1929
The Great Depression began (October)
1930 ª@ ª@

Eugenik (by Deutscher Bund)

Pope Pius XI "Encyclical Letter on Christian Marriage"

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