Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (died 1941)

Benjamin Lee Whorf

American linguist (1897–1941)

Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named…