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Lombroso

American  
[lom-broh-soh, lawm-braw-saw] / lɒmˈbroʊ soʊ, lɔmˈbrɔ sɔ /

noun

  1. Cesare 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.


Lombroso British  
/ lomˈbroːso /

noun

  1. Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1836–1909, Italian criminologist: he postulated the existence of a criminal type

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Born in 1835 in northern Italy, Lombroso trained as a physician.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Talk with criminologists about biology, and one name comes up again and again: Cesare Lombroso.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Where Lombroso used calipers and craniographs, Kosinski has been using neural networks to find patterns in photos scraped from the internet.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2018

Like his hero Cesare Lombroso, he believes that the criminal brain has distinctive features.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013

Cesar Lombroso, in the Paris Revue des Revues, says:—"Among the stars of first magnitude shines one of greatest brilliance, Carducci, the true representative of Italian literary genius."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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