William Sealy Gosset

William Sealy Gosset
William Sealy Gosset (aka Student) in 1908 (age 32)
Born	(1876-06-13)13 June 1876 Canterbury, Kent, England
Died	16 October 1937(1937-10-16) (aged 61) Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Other names	Student
Alma mater	Winchester College, New College, Oxford
Known for	Student's t-distribution, statistical significance, design of experiments, Monte Carlo method, quality control, Modern synthesis, agricultural economics, econometrics
Children	5, including Isaac Henry Gosset
Scientific career
Institutions	Guinness Brewery

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".^[1]