George Green
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 71
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- The Shunammite recommended to the candid perusal of all denominations of Christians
- A catalogue of the genuine library of George Green, Esq. late of Hatton-Street, deceased
- Psychology of the Armenian Genocide
- Harry, the Horse with No Hope
- Psalms of Everything God
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,940x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,614x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,865x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,619x
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Quotes
- “Although many of the artifices employed in the works before mentioned are remarkable for their elegance, it is easy to see they are adapted only to particular objects, and that some general method, capable of being employed in every case, is still wanting.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1793-07-14 ) 14 July 1793, Sneinton , Nottinghamshire, England
- Died
- 31 May 1841 (1841-05-31) (aged 47), Nottingham , Nottinghamshire, England
- Alma mater
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1838)
- Known for
- Green measure Cauchy–Green tensor Green's function Green's identities Green's law Green's matrix Green's theorem Liouville–Green method
- Fields
- Mathematical physics
- Institutions
- Caius College, Cambridge
- Patrons
- Edward Bromhead
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Encyclopedic overview
George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist. Despite being almost entirely self-taught, having received only about one year of formal schooling as a child, between the ages of 8 and 9, Green made a number of key contributions to mathematical physics. He is now best remembered for his Essay on electricity and magnetism of 1828, in which he introduced an early version of Green's theorem in vector calculus, the notion of potential functions as currently used in physics, and a method of solving differential equations called Green's functions. This paper formed the foundation for the work of later scientists such as William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), among many others. His work on potentials ran parallel to that of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Green also studied hydrodynamics, acoustics, and optics.
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