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William Gemmell Cochran

1909 - 1980

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William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States. Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gemmell Cochran has received more than 70,989 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Gemmell Cochran is the 765th most popular mathematician (up from 767th in 2019), the 4,033rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,342nd in 2019) and the 86th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 765 out of 823. Before him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Maxim Kontsevich, Nathan Jacobson, Mary Everest Boole, William Hopkins, and Robin Hartshorne. After him are Øystein Ore, Dmitri Anosov, Rudy Rucker, Ngô Bảo Châu, Raoul Bott, and Georges de Rham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 293. Before him are Jean Taris, Ernesto Belis, Mohamed Latif, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Katherine Dunham, and Max Black. After him are Koichi Kudo, André Bonin, Olivér Halassy, Adolf Šimperský, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Octacílio. Among people deceased in 1980, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 230. Before him are Ragnar Gustavsson, Félix Welkenhuysen, Larry Williams, Carlo Annovazzi, Max Miedinger, and David A. Johnston. After him are Dorothy Stratten, Enrique Hertzog, Strother Martin, Uttam Kumar, Professor Longhair, and Louis Daquin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 4,033 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Newton (1905), Martin McGuinness (1950), Edward Alleyn (1566), Ramón Zabalo (1910), Lachlan Macquarie (1762), and Guy Butler (1899). After him are Tommy Cooper (1921), Alan Woods (1944), Patrick Abercrombie (1879), Steve Hillage (1951), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), and Ninian (360).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William Gemmell Cochran ranks 86. Before him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), William Henry Young (1863), Benjamin Robins (1707), Simon Donaldson (1957), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and William Hopkins (1793). After him are Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), George Peacock (1791), Horace Lamb (1849), and Richard K. Guy (1916).

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