What is George Kingsley Zipf?
{{Infobox scientist |name = George Kingsley Zipf |birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|01|07}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|09|25|1902|01|07}} |image = George Kingsley Zipf 1917.jpg |caption = 1917 photograph from the 1919 Annual of the Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois |image_size = |birth_place = [[Freeport, Illinois]] |death_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts]] |nationality = [[United States|American]] |fields = [[Statistics]], [[linguistics]] |alma_mater = [[Harvard College]] |known_for = [[Zipf's law]] }} '''George Kingsley Zipf''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɪ|f}};<ref>{{citation|title=A Pocket Guide to Risk Mathematics: Key Concepts Every Auditor Should Know|first=Matthew|last=Leitch|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2010|isbn=9780470971468|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8GrzlnMSm8C&pg=PA62}}.</ref> January 7, 1902 – September 25, 1950), was an American scientist in the fields of linguistics, philology, mathematics and statistics. He came up with a [[Zipf's law|law of word frequency]] in languages which bears his name. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zipf, George Kingsley}} [[Category:Scientists from Illinois]] [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1950 deaths]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]]