William Sealey Gosset 1876-
1937 is best known as the person who introduced 
Student's t-distribution, so called because in 
1908 he published under the 
pseudonym "Student."
Some publications:
-  The application of the law of error to the work of the Brewery (1904, nota interna presso Guinness)
 -  On the error of counting with hæmacytometer (1907)
 -  The probable error of a mean (1908)
 -  Probable error of a correlation coefficient (1908)
 -  The distribution of the means of samples which are not drawn at random (1909)
 -  An experimental determination of the probable error of Dr Spearman's correlation coefficients (1909)
 
 
 
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