George Kingsley Zipf
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 74 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 7,1902 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Freeport |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | September 25,1950 |
| Died | Newton |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Zipf's law |
| Job | Statistician |
| Education | Harvard College |
| Books | Human behavior and the principle of least effort |
| The psycho-biology of language | |
| Selected Studies of the Principle of Relative Frequency in Language | |
| National Unity and Disunity: The Nation as a Bio-social Organism | |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada |
| Nationality | American |
| Interests | Linguistics |
| Psychology | |
| Bibliometrics | |
| Children | Joyce Harrington |
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| ID | 1209158 |
George Kingsley Zipf Life story
George Kingsley Zipf, 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.
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