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Dith Pran
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Dith Pran was a Cambodian photographer, journalist, and photojournalist who worked for The New York Times Company. He was born in Siem Reap in 1942 and died in New Brunswick in 2008. His death resulted from pancreatic cancer under natural causes. Pran was a male who held Cambodian citizenship and spoke Khmer, English, and French. He resided in Woodbridge Township.
Pran authored two works, including the notable title *Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields*. He is recognized for his contributions to the field of photojournalism. His name in his native Khmer language is ឌិត ប្រន.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
- Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1920-02-12
- Active to
- 2013-07-12
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dith+Pran">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Locally Supersymmetric Grand Unification
· 1982 · cited 1,385x
- Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies
· 2022 · cited 1,003x
- Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis
· 2020 · cited 730x
- Deep learning outperformed 136 of 157 dermatologists in a head-to-head dermoscopic melanoma image classification task
· 2019 · cited 501x
- Regulation of EMT in Colorectal Cancer: A Culprit in Metastasis
· 2017 · cited 412x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-09-27 ) September 27, 1942, Siem Reap , Cambodia , French Indochina
- Died
- March 30, 2008 (2008-03-30) (aged 65), New Brunswick, New Jersey , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Cambodia (until 1986) U.S. (from 1986)
- Occupation
- Photojournalist
- Employer
- The New York Times
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cambodia
- Place of birth
- Siem Reap
- Place of death
- New Brunswick
- Occupation
- photojournalist
- Employer
- The New York Times Company
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Khmer
- Field of work
- photojournalism
- Image
- Dith Pran.jpg
- Residence
- Woodbridge Township
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- Commons category
- Dith Pran
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1942-09-27
- date of death
- 2008-03-30
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html
- name in native language
- ឌិត ប្រន
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian-American photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and one of the subjects of the Academy Award–winning film The Killing Fields (1984), in which he was portrayed by Haing S. Ngor, a fellow survivor.
Early life
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