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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| 1900 |
Mendelian Laws of genetics, rediscovered
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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 | |
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The Fitter Families contests began Laughlin (Eugenic Record Office) got involved in the House Committee on Immigration |
"social hygiene" became dominant in French eugenics |
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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) |
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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 |
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| 1929 |
The Great Depression began (October)
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Eugenik (by Deutscher Bund) Pope Pius XI "Encyclical Letter on Christian Marriage" |
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