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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Benford has received more than 63,481 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Benford is the 681st most popular physicist (down from 680th in 2019), the 8,091st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,028th in 2019) and the 144th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Benford ranks 681 out of 717. Before him are Robert R. Wilson, Gerald Guralnik, Ernst Stueckelberg, Abraham Pais, Sulamith Goldhaber, and Clyde Cowan. After him are Leonard Mlodinow, Ernst Ising, Charles H. Bennett, Miguel Alcubierre, E. C. George Sudarshan, and John Clauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Frank Benford ranks 220. Before him are Maude Fealy, Gaston Amson, Anders Hylander, Gyula Juhász, Paul Pilgrim, and Daniel Kelly. After him are Otto Bartning, Emil Rausch, Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, Mary Alden, Federigo Tozzi, and Carl Gustav Fleischer. Among people deceased in 1948, Frank Benford ranks 147. Before him are Malcolm Campbell, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles A. Beard, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Claude McKay, and Edgar Kennedy. After him are Joseph Wedderburn, Juan Esteban Montero, Arthur Whitten Brown, Thomas Mofolo, Adolf Kainz, and René Benjamin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 8,091 out of 18,182. Before him are Clyde Cowan (1919), Blair Brown (1946), Ricky Jay (1946), Amy Tan (1952), Elaine Stritch (1925), and Haskell Wexler (1922). After him are Billy Corgan (1967), Whitney Smith (1940), Peter Orlovsky (1933), Herbert Jamison (1875), James Rumbaugh (1947), and Paul Bostaph (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 144. Before him are Ash Carter (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Robert L. Forward (1932), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Gerald Guralnik (1936), and Clyde Cowan (1919). After him are Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Charles H. Bennett (1943), John Clauser (1942), Charles W. Misner (1932), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), and Harvey Fletcher (1884).

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