George Kingsley Zipf

Who was George Kingsley Zipf?

George Kingsley Zipf, was an American linguist and philologist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages.

Zipf earned his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, although he also studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. He was Chairman of the German Department and University Lecturer at Harvard University. He worked with Chinese languages and demographics, and much of his effort can explain properties of the Internet, distribution of income within nations, and many other collections of data.