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1. Other early uses of Markov chains include a diffusion model, introduced by Paul and Tatyana Ehrenfest in 1907, and a branching process, introduced by Francis Galton and Henry William Watson in 1873, preceding the work of Markov . Starting in 1928, Maurice Fr�chet became interested in Markov chains, eventually resulting in him publishing in 1938 a detailed study on Markov chains.