Frank Benford
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.
Frank Albert Benford Jr. | |
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| Born | May 29, 1883 Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
| Died | December 4, 1948 (aged 65) Schenectady, New York |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Known for | Benford's Law |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering Physics |
| Institutions | General Electric |
Benford is also known for having devised, in 1937, an instrument for measuring the refractive index of glass. An expert in optical measurements, he published 109 papers in the fields of optics and mathematics and was granted 20 patents on optical devices.
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