John Brooks

Person · Open Library

Born

1939

Works

29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1962-02-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

214

Total plays

466

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,647x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,356x

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 Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a document longer than "War and Peace", is phrased -inevitably, perhaps- in the sort of jargon that stuns the mind and disheartens the spirit.”
• “I find that companies are inclined to be at their most interesting when they are undergoing a little misfortune, and therefore I chose the fall of 1966 as the time to have a look at Xerox.”
• “I found that business life is full of creative original minds -along with the usual number of second-guessers, of course.”
• “A man´s study reflects himself as he wishes to be seen publicly, but his journal, if he is honest, reflects something else.”
• “...both company managements and stockholders might well consider a lesson King Lear learned -that when the role of dissenter is left to the Fool, there may be trouble ahead for everybody.”
• “In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Gilbert Stuart, Govenor John Brooks, c. 1820, HAA.jpg

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