Birthdate: January 7, 1902
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Freeport, Illinois, United States
Died: September 25, 1950
George Kingsley Zipf, an American linguist and philologist, was renowned for his research on statistical occurrences in different languages. He earned degrees from Harvard University and studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. Zipf held positions as the chairman of the German department and a university lecturer at Harvard. His research primarily centered on the Chinese language and demographics, with applications in analyzing income distribution within countries and examining various datasets, such as Internet properties.
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