Holger Pedersen

Danish linguist (1867-1953)

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Road-Map to the Indian's Treasure
Festschrift Zur Feier des Zweihundertjährigen Bestehens der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen
Linguistic Sciences in the Nineteenth Century
The discovery of language
A Glance at the History of Linguistics

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Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,235x
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,193x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,405x
GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
· 2008 · cited 18,481x
Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
· 2014 · cited 15,544x

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Born: ( 1867-04-07 ) 7 April 1867, Gelballe [ da ] , Kolding Municipality , Denmark
Died: 25 October 1953 (1953-10-25) (aged 86), Hellerup , Denmark
Alma mater: University of Copenhagen
Known for: Contributions to historical linguistics, including Pedersen's law , the ruki sound law , and early support for laryngeal theory
Fields: linguistics , comparative linguistics , historical linguistics
Institutions: University of Copenhagen

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date of birth: 1867-01-01
date of death: 1953-10-25
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Holger Pedersen ( Danish: [ˈhʌlˀkɐ ˈpʰe̝(ː)ðɐsn̩]; 7 April 1867 – 25 October 1953) was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about thirty authoritative works concerning several languages. He was born in Gelballe, Denmark, and died in Hellerup, next to Copenhagen.