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Frank Benford

1883 - 1948

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Frank Albert Benford Jr. (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1948) was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's Law, an earlier statistical statement by Simon Newcomb, about the occurrence of digits in lists of data. Benford is also known for having devised, in 1937, an instrument for measuring the refractive index of glass. An expert in optical measurements, he published 109 papers in the fields of optics and mathematics and was granted 20 patents on optical devices. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Benford is the 757th most popular physicist (down from 746th in 2019), the 9,929th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,125th in 2019) and the 171st most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Frank Benford ranks 757 out of 851. Before him are Balfour Stewart, Max Tegmark, Elda Emma Anderson, Mary K. Gaillard, John Pendry, and Brian Cox. After him are Paul Steinhardt, Jacques Friedel, Lene Hau, Charles Sheffield, Bertrand Halperin, and Peter Zoller.

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Among people born in 1883, Frank Benford ranks 256. Before him are Otto Bartning, Maude Fealy, Daniel Kelly, Paul Pilgrim, Ernest Hamilton, and Madan Lal Dhingra. After him are S. Z. Sakall, Lili Bech, Victor Johnson, Aurelio Mosquera, Georg de Laval, and Lloyd Fredendall. Among people deceased in 1948, Frank Benford ranks 184. Before him are Elissa Landi, Claude McKay, Amir Sjarifuddin, Carl Abrahamsson, Arthur Whitten Brown, and Franz Weidenreich. After him are Susan Glaspell, Edgar Kennedy, James Young, Poul Heegaard, Warren William, and Mary Eaton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 9,931 out of 20,380. Before him are Gene Ammons (1925), Jonah Falcon (1970), Brian Donlevy (1901), Daniel Johnston (1961), Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795), and David Brenner (1962). After him are George Stibitz (1904), Gertrude Mary Cox (1900), Brian Benben (1956), Paige Turco (1965), David Vincent (1965), and Scott Ian (1963).

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Among physicists born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 171. Before him are Seymour Benzer (1921), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Robert Bacher (1905), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), and Mary K. Gaillard (1939). After him are Paul Steinhardt (1952), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Robert Marshak (1916), Samuel King Allison (1900), C. R. Hagen (1937), and Harvey Fletcher (1884).

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