Louis Israel Dublin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Israel Dublin

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1882

Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1969

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Louis Israel Dublin (November 1, 1882 – March 7, 1969) was a Jewish American statistician.
As vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, he promoted progressive and socially useful insurance underwriting policies.
As a scholar, Dublin was an important figure in the establishment of demography as a social-scientific discipline in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.
Dublin was interested in eugenics but as a Jew of recent immigrant extraction criticized eugenicists for equating biological superiority with Nordic origins.Dublin was born in Kovno (Kaunas is the Lithuanian name for Kovno), Lithuania.
He came to the U.S.
in 1886 with his parents Max and Sarah (Rosensweig).
Dublin obtained his bachelor's in 1901 at City College of New York.
He earned his Ph.D.
at Columbia University in 1904.
He married Augusta Salik on April 5, 1908.
Dublin taught at Yale as a lecturer in vital statistics.
In 1924 served as president of the American Statistical Association. He died in Winter Park, Orange County, Florida at the age of 86.