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5 unusual facts about A. Ross Eckler


Dave Morice

Ross Eckler, Keith Jones, and Grant Willson devised the Word Worm Array, which provides a second way to characterize words in space.

Eckler

A. Ross Eckler, Jr. (born 1927), American scientist and mathematician

A. Ross Eckler (1901–1991), deputy director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and director from 1965 to 1969

George Fruits

Commencing with the 1979 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records said "new research released by A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1978 has shown him to be 17 years younger than the age shown on his gravestone."

Jeremiah Farrell

In 2006 Farrell and his wife took over from A. Ross Eckler, Jr. as editors and publishers of the quarterly publication Word Ways: the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, established in 1968.



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