Frank Benford

Frank Albert Benford junior ( * May 29, 1883 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA; † 4 December 1948 in Schenectady, New York ) was an American electrical engineer and physicist.

After studying at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated with a bachelor degree in electrical engineering, he worked as an engineer and physicist in the research laboratory from 1910 to 1948 at General Electric.

Benford became famous mainly by Benford's Law is named after him. This by Simon Newcomb discovered in logarithmic frequency distribution of digits in multi- digit numbers and he reached up and generalized it to all decimal numbers.

  • Physicist ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1883
  • Died in 1948
  • Man
346992
de