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Louis Dublin · Science & Medicine

What

Biostatistics and actuarial science of life expectancy

When

1882, Kaunas (Kovno), Russian Empire (now Lithuania) — 1969, Bedford Hills, New York, USA

Where

Lithuania · United States

Biography

Louis Dublin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biostatistics and actuarial science of life expectancy

How & why

Louis I. Dublin was a statistician and long-time chief statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance who pioneered biostatistics and the actuarial study of life expectancy, using large mortality data to shape public-health and life-insurance practice. Born into a Jewish family in Kaunas, he emigrated to the United States as a child.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Biostatistics and actuarial science of life expectancy

1882

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics