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George Kingsley Zipf

1902 - 1950

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George Kingsley Zipf (; January 7, 1902 – September 25, 1950), was an American linguist and philologist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages.Zipf earned his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, although he also studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. He was chairman of the German department and university lecturer (meaning he could teach any subject he chose) at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Kingsley Zipf has received more than 99,405 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). George Kingsley Zipf is the 112th most popular linguist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 4,768th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,585th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 21

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  • 5.86

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  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, George Kingsley Zipf ranks 112 out of 161Before him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Stephen Krashen, Julius Pokorny, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Morris Halle, and Hrachia Acharian. After him are Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, Arie de Jong, Daniel Jones, and George Abraham Grierson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, George Kingsley Zipf ranks 178Before him are Sergei Khudyakov, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Juan Evaristo, Bobby Jones, Strom Thurmond, and Andrés Mazali. After him are Son House, Ilmari Salminen, André Patry, Georgette Heyer, Yevgeny Petrov, and Yakov Smushkevich. Among people deceased in 1950, George Kingsley Zipf ranks 112Before him are Santiago Casares Quiroga, Orhan Veli Kanık, Alykul Osmonov, Pavel Bazhov, Sergei Khudyakov, and Adolf Meyer. After him are Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Sudirman, Dirk Coster, Guilhermina Suggia, Konrad von Preysing, and Recep Peker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Kingsley Zipf ranks 4,768 out of 18,182Before him are Claudette Colvin (1939), Carl Spaatz (1891), Steven Zaillian (1953), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Big Joe Turner (1911), and Muse Watson (1948). After him are Morris Swadesh (1909), Jerry Hall (1956), Joe Dallesandro (1948), Elvin Hayes (1945), Demi Lovato (1992), and Eugene Polley (1915).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, George Kingsley Zipf ranks 11Before him are George Lakoff (1941), Joseph Greenberg (1915), William Labov (1927), Noah Webster (1758), Joshua Fishman (1926), and Stephen Krashen (1941). After him are Morris Swadesh (1909), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Alice Kober (1906), and Dell Hymes (1927).