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Alan Baker
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 158
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-12-23
- Active to
- 1988-05-13
2008 universal fire victimamericanjazzjazz and blueswest coast jazz
Discography
- Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman1953
- Chet Baker Sings1954
- Chet Baker & Strings1954
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet1955
- Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings1955
- The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker1955
- Playboys1956
- Quartet: Russ Freeman Chet Baker1957
- It Could Happen to You: Chet Baker Sings1958
- Chet Baker in New York1958
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 726
- Total plays
- 2,711
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
79h-index
- Works
- 322
- Cited by
- 26,315
Research areas
PhytoremediationChemistryBiologyEcologyBotany
Most cited works
- Accumulators and excluders ‐strategies in the response of plants to heavy metals1981 · 2,182 cit
- Hyperaccumulators of metal and metalloid trace elements: Facts and fiction2012 · 1,393 cit
- Hopes for the Future: Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology1997 · 1,027 cit
- Metal Hyperaccumulator Plants: A Review of the Ecology and Physiology of a Biological Resource for Phytoremediation of Metal-Polluted Soils2020 · 1,016 cit
- Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel1996 · 955 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 17,867x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-08-19 ) 19 August 1939, London, England
- Died
- 4 February 2018 (2018-02-04) (aged 78), Cambridge , England
- Alma mater
- University College London , University of Cambridge
- Known for
- Number theory , Diophantine equations , Baker's theorem , Baker–Heegner–Stark theorem
- Awards
- Fields Medal (1970), Adams Prize (1972)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge
- Thesis
- Some Aspects of Diophantine Approximation (1964)
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold Davenport
- Doctoral students
- John Coates , Yuval Flicker , Roger Heath-Brown , David Masser , Cameron Stewart
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Wikidata facts
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- Alan-Baker.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1939-08-19
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of death
- 2018-02-04
- name in native language
- Alan Baker
- Commons category
- Alan Baker
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Article
Alan Baker FRS (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory.
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