John A. Eddy

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Works

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,531x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,586x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,896x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,562x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,128x

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Quotes

• “"It has long been though that the sun is a constant star of regular and repeatable behavior. Measurements of the radiative output, or solar constant, seem to justify the first assumption, and the record of periodicity in sunspot numbers is taken as evidence of the second. Both records, however, sample only the most recent history of the sun."”
• “"I have reexamined the contemporary reports and new evidence which has come to light since Maunder's time and conclude that this 70-year period was indeed a time when solar activity all but stopped. This behavior is wholly unlike the modern behavior of the sun which we have come to accept as normal, and the consequences for solar and terrestrial physics seem to me profound."”
• “"The reality of the 'Maunder Minimum' and its implications of basic solar change may be but one more defeat in our long and losing battle to keep the sun perfect, or, if not perfect, constant, and if inconstant, regular. Why we think that sun should be any of these when other stars are not is more a question for social than for physical science."”
• ““I am most indebted to E N Parker for calling my attention to Maunder's papers, and for personal encouragement in all the work reported here.””
• “"It would seem that Maunder and Sporer were right and that most of the rest of us have been wrong. As is often the case in the onrush of modern science, we had too quickly forgotten the past, forgotten the less-than-perfect pedigree of the sunspot cycle and the fact that it too once came as a surprise. We had adopted a kind of solar uniformitarianism, contending that the modern behavior of the sun represented the normal behavior of the sun over a much longer span of time."”
• “"We had adopted a kind of solar uniformitarianism," solar physicist John (Jack) Eddy suggested in retrospect. "As people and as scientists we have always wanted the Sun to be better than other stars and better than it really is."”

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