William Sealy Gosset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Sealy Gosset

British statistician

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1876

Place of Birth: Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1937

Profession: mathematician, chemist, statistician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics.
He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty.
Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".