Frank Wallace Notestein (August 16, 1902 - February 19, 1983) was an American demographer who contributed significantly to the development of the science.
Notestein completed his graduation thesis and set off to Europe where he studied occupational mortality for a year.
[1] Frank W. Notestein in 1945 provided labels for the types of growth patterns of the demographic transition that was found by Warren Thompson sixteen years earlier.
[5]: 14 Frank Notestein was engaged to his classmate, Daphne Limbach, in his senior year in college.
The couple then spent their honeymoon in Europe, where Notestein studied occupational mortality on a Social Science Research Council fellowship.