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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 66,949 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Benford is the 745th most popular physicist (down from 681st in 2019), the 9,123rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,075th in 2019) and the 164th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Benford ranks 745 out of 851. Before him are Bernard Lovell, Paul Corkum, Hubert Curien, George F. R. Ellis, William Stanley Jr., and Ernst Ising. After him are Gilbert Walker, Juan Martín Maldacena, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Miguel Alcubierre, Arthur Schuster, and Grigory Landsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Frank Benford ranks 249. Before him are Lloyd Fredendall, Ernest Hamilton, Joseph Perotaux, Carl Gustav Fleischer, Georg de Laval, and Otto Bartning. After him are Erik Norberg, Daniel Kelly, Ercole Olgeni, Paul Pilgrim, Marguerite Clark, and Henry Robertson Bowers. Among people deceased in 1948, Frank Benford ranks 175. Before him are Dale Fuller, Arthur Whitten Brown, Malcolm Campbell, Carl Hårleman, Claude McKay, and Thomas Mofolo. After him are John Anderson, James Young, Mary Eaton, George Mehnert, Poul Heegaard, and René Benjamin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 9,123 out of 20,380. Before him are Nicholas Colasanto (1924), Caroline Smith (1906), Wovoka (1856), Mitzi Gaynor (1931), Stephen Colbert (1964), and John Abizaid (1951). After him are John Heysham Gibbon (1903), Jorge Garcia (1973), Dennis Boutsikaris (1952), Steve Jablonsky (1970), M. Scott Peck (1936), and Lukas Haas (1976).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Benford ranks 164. Before him are Howard P. Robertson (1903), Harvey Fletcher (1884), C. R. Hagen (1937), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Seymour Benzer (1921), and William Stanley Jr. (1858). After him are Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), Sidney Coleman (1937), Robert Bacher (1905), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), and Edward C. Stone (1936).

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