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W. H. Sheldon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard N. Walker
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Dr William H. Sheldon, Director of the Biological Humanics Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died there on 16 September 1977. Sheldon is the man who invented somatotyping—a classification of variations in human body structure, to which he related variations in temperament, in physical and mental illness, and in patterns of growth and ageing.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 2 , Issue 6 , June 1978 , pp. 104 - 105
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