Wednesday, December 11, 2013

History for the biology of life span, GG91, reading notes

John Graunt, 1662, first life table for London residents

Leonhard Euler, 1760, general investigations into mortality and the multiplication of the human race

Benjanmin Gompertz, 1825, Gompertz model. (Was Gompertz the first person to use the term "the force of mortality"?)

William Makeham, 1860, Gompertz-Makeham model

Rosset 1979 reviewed the history of biology of lifespan in a Polish article.


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