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3 entries match Internal, Emergency & Geriatric [G02.403.810] · Physics, Math & Biomechanics [K01.900.400]
1970 CE
#8380
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
1860 CE
#8376
On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.
Gompertz-Makeham law. Makeham proposed the age-independent Makeham term that, together with the exponentially age-dependent Gompertz term, compose the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality--one of the most effective theor…
1825 CE
#8375
On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.
Gompertz function. "Gompertz showed that over much of the adult human lifespan, age-specific mortality rates increased in an exponential manner. Gompertz's work played an important role in shaping the emerging statist…