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Benjamin Gompertz - Family tree

Benjamin Gompertz

  • Birth: 1779 London, United Kingdom
  • Death: 1865 London, United Kingdom
  • Age: 86
  • Occupation types: Scholarly
    Scholarly activity -
    activity related to the expansion of the limits of knowledge.

    This type of activity includes following areas:

    • science,
    • philosophy,
    • theology, etc.
  • Comments: Was a self educated mathematician, denied admission to university because he was Jewish. Nevertheless he was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Gompertz is today mostly known for his Gompertz law (of mortality), a demographic model published in 1825.

Benjamin Gompertz

(1779, London - 1865, London)


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(1783, Surrey - 1861)


(1774 - 1856)

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