Samuel C. Bradford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel C. Bradford

British mathematician, librarian and documentalist

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1878

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1948

Profession: computer scientist, librarian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Samuel Clement Bradford (10 January 1878 in London – 13 November 1948) was a British mathematician, librarian and documentalist at the Science Museum in London.
He developed "Bradford's law" (or the "law of scattering") regarding differences in demand for scientific journals.
This work influences bibliometrics and citation analysis of scientific publications.
Bradford founded the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) (est.
1927) and he was elected president of International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) in 1945.
Bradford was a strong proponent of the UDC and of establishing abstracts of the scientific literature.