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Benjamin Lee Whorf

1897 - 1941

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Benjamin Lee Whorf (; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, as having implications similar to those of Einstein's principle of physical relativity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Lee Whorf has received more than 467,631 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Benjamin Lee Whorf is the 38th most popular linguist (down from 35th in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Linguist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Benjamin Lee Whorf ranks 38 out of 161. Before him are Jost Gippert, Friedrich August Wolf, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Edgar de Wahl, Alexandre de Rhodes, and Bedřich Hrozný. After him are Vasily Radlov, André Martinet, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Vilhelm Thomsen, Leonard Bloomfield, and George Lakoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Benjamin Lee Whorf ranks 68. Before him are Theodor Busse, Marcel Petiot, Winifred Wagner, Karl Löwith, Elijah Muhammad, and Sidney Bechet. After him are Judith Anderson, Jean Epstein, Thornton Wilder, Philippe Soupault, Sepp Herberger, and Hans Speidel. Among people deceased in 1941, Benjamin Lee Whorf ranks 53. Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie, Gaetano Mosca, Tullio Levi-Civita, Hans Driesch, Lou Gehrig, and Edwin S. Porter. After him are Maria Spiridonova, Franz Gürtner, Émile Picard, Ivan Panfilov, Hans Berger, and Charles Huntziger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Lee Whorf ranks 1,735 out of 18,182. Before him are Benjamin Spock (1903), Bob Gunton (1945), Alfred Newman (1900), John Turturro (1957), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), and Roger D. Kornberg (1947). After him are Creighton Abrams (1914), Dana Elcar (1927), James Patterson (1947), Alan Alda (1936), Lee Majors (1939), and Edward Tatum (1909).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Benjamin Lee Whorf ranks 3. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928) and William James Sidis (1898). After him are Leonard Bloomfield (1887), George Lakoff (1941), Joseph Greenberg (1915), William Labov (1927), Noah Webster (1758), Joshua Fishman (1926), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and Morris Swadesh (1909).

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