Derek Abbott

Person · Open Library

Works

10

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1922-12-29

Active to

1977-04-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 22,931x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,443x

3. A Method of Computing the Effectiveness of an Insecticide

   · 1925 · cited 10,860x

4. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

   · 2014 · cited 9,180x

5. <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

   · 2004 · cited 8,865x

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Quotes

• “My advice to all students is to question everything! You never know where a "silly question" may lead you.”
• “My starting point is as an academic who always thought nuclear was the answer, but who then looked at the figures and came to an inescapable conclusion that solar-hydrogen is the long-term future. I did not come at this as a green evangelist. I am a reluctant convert.”
• “One can justify solar-hydrogen simply on grounds of economic resource viability without any green agenda.”
• “The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources.”
• “The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole. It's rather like the play The Little Shop of Horrors where a man-eating plant is initially fed small amounts, but then its voracious appetite sends it into a downward spiral swallowing up anyone that gets in its way.”
• “Efficiency is not the issue when you go solar. There is so much solar that all you have to do is invest in the non-recurring cost of more dishes to drive a solar-hydrogen economy at whatever efficiency it happens to sit at.”

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Wikidata facts

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