birth_date: 1897-04-24 00:00:00
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name: Benjamin Lee Whorf
about: Bejamin Lee Whorf was an inspector for a fire insurance company who studied and wrote about language with his teacher, a Yale professor named Edward Sapir. Together they proposed what Whorf called the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, commonly known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
death_date: 1941-07-26 00:00:00