Frank Benford
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American electrical engineer & physicist best known for rediscovering Benford's Law
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Frank Benford's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Chicago
Why Is Frank Benford Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Albert Benford Jr. 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 Benford's Published Works
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Published Works
- Radiation in a diffusing medium. (1946) (51)
- Coefficients of reflection of magnesium oxide and magnesium carbonate. (1948) (47)
- Quantitative studies of the effectiveness of ultraviolet radiation of various wave-lengths in rickets. (1938) (30)
- Coefficients of reflection in the ultraviolet of magnesium carbonate and oxide. (1948) (22)
- Reflection and transmission of parallel plates (1923) (16)
- Laws and Corollaries of the Black Body (1939) (11)
- Note on Illumination Characteristics of the Camera Lens (1937) (8)
- APPARENT TIME ACCELERATION WITH AGE. (1944) (8)
- A Reflectometer for All Types of Surfaces (1934) (7)
- Temperature Corrections in Optical Pyrometry (1939) (5)
- An Illuminagraphic Camera (1943) (4)
- Some Characteristics of Metal Mirrors and a New Gonioreflectometer (1942) (4)
- The Projection of Light (1945) (3)
- A Coordinated System of Optical Filters for Color-Temperature Determinations (1935) (2)
- A Monochromator for the Near Ultraviolet (1936) (2)
- Design Method for a Schmidt Camera with a Finite Source (1944) (1)
- Illumination in the Focal Plane (1941) (1)
- The Integrating Factor of the Photometric Sphere (1935) (1)
- AN APPARATUS FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE RAMAN EFFECT IN LIQUIDS (1930) (1)
- A New Reflectometer (1925) (1)
- Illumination from Extended Sources Computed by the Theory of the Integrating Sphere (1940) (1)
- Radiation Characteristics of Two Mercury Arcs (1930) (1)
- The High Intensity Arc (1926) (0)
- Visible Radiation from the Low Pressure Mercury Arc (1927) (0)
- Hg198 as a wave-length standard. (1948) (0)
- The Normal Probability Curve as an Approximation to the Distribution Curve of the High Intensity Searchlight (1948) (0)
- Magnification and Brightness of Images on the Retina (1943) (0)
- A Split Aspheric Condensing Lens (1923) (0)
- A True-Area Photometric Distribution Curve (1942) (0)
- Visible Radiation from the Neon Hot Cathode Arc (1928) (0)
- Notes on the Characteristics of Tungsten and Tungsten Lamps (1928) (0)
- A Simple Refractometer (1939) (0)
- Illumination Characteristics of the Camera Lens (1937) (0)
- The duration and intensity of sunshine; daily variations in intensity. (1948) (0)
- Computation of Transmission Factors of Ultraviolet Radiation Through Water (1940) (0)
- A Chart for Transferring Spherical Coordinates (1941) (0)
- Duration and intensity of sunshine; general equations and corrections. (1947) (0)
- Report of Theater Lighting Committee: May, 1930 (1930) (0)
- A Hemispherical Photometric Integrator (1922) (0)
- The Probable Accuracy of the General Physical Constants (1943) (0)
- Duration and intensity of sunshine; effects of atmosphere. (1948) (0)
- A Polygonal Floodlighting Mirror (1927) (0)
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