John Barth

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,670x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,728x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,357x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,339x

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

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

• “The night-sea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a Shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.”
• “One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.”
• “Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to “penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.”
• “[N]othing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it, from outside, by people.”
• “[T]here is no will-o'-the-wisp so elusive as the cause of any human act.”
• “[I]t is sometimes pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1930-05-27 ) May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland , U.S.

Died

April 2, 2024 (2024-04-02) (aged 93), Bonita Springs, Florida , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist academic

Education

Juilliard School Johns Hopkins University ( BA , MA )

Period

1956–2022

Genre

Postmodernism metafiction

Notable awards

National Book Award , 1973 Chimera

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