Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Whorf was born in Winthrop MA in 1897. He studied chemical engineering at MIT and worked briefly as a fire prevention engineer for the Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
In 1931 Whorf began studying linguistics at Yale under Edward Sapir. He was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology in 1936, received a Sterling Fellowship in 1937, and lectured in anthropology from 1937 through 1938
Whorf's publications include The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan (1935), Maya Writing and Its Decipherment (1935), Discussion of Hopi Linguistics (1937), Science and Linguistics (1940), Linguistics as an Exact Science (1940), Languages and Logic (1941), Grammatical Categories (1945), An American Indian Model of the Universe (1950), and A Review of General-Semantics (1950)
