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Benjamin Banneker
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free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1731
- Died
- 1806
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Banneker's New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia almanac, or ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1795
- Banneker's almanack, and ephemeris for the year of our Lord 1794 ..
- Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord, 1794 ..
- Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord, 1793 ..
- Bannaker's Wilmington almanac, or ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1795 ..
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,908x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,863x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,921x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”
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Key facts
- Born
- November 9, 1731, Baltimore County , Province of Maryland , British America
- Died
- October 19, 1806 (1806-10-19) (aged 74), Oella , Baltimore County , Maryland, U.S.
- Other name
- Benjamin Bannaker
- Occupations
- almanac author, surveyor, farmer
- Parents
- Robert (father) Mary Banneky (mother)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benjamin Banneker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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