John Gillingham

Person · Open Library

Born

1940

Works

30

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1947-10-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2

Total plays

20

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,672x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,689x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,923x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,597x

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

   · 1992 · cited 29,138x

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Quotes

• “In eleventh-century Europe, kingdoms, like other landed estates, were family firms and, as in modern family businesses, there was no fixed order of succession. At any time a struggle for control could pit brother against brother, nephew against uncle or, as here, son against father. Victory brought massive rewards. We know from Domesday Book (1086) that the winner in this game of thrones got no less than 20 per cent of all the land in England.”
• “But despite dangers to themselves, rulers and would-be rulers were expected to share the risks when they sent their followers to fight, not stay behind their desks as rulers do today. For as long as this expectation prevailed, it was virtually impossible for women to become monarchs.”
• “Hunting, like war, was dangerous. One of Rufus’ older brothers, Richard, died as a result of injuries suffered while hunting in the New Forest. In consequence Rufus became the second oldest of the three surviving brothers: Robert, William, Henry. Their rivalry was to shape the politics of a generation.”
• “There is nothing to indicate that Rufus learned to read or write—unlike Henry, who did, whether because he had originally been intended for the priesthood, or because he was ten years younger than Rufus, in a world of changing expectations. By the 1120s the saying ‘an illiterate king is an ass wearing a crown’ had become proverbial.”
• “The major churches were immensely rich. Approximately one-quarter of the wealth of all England as measured in Domesday Book belonged to them.”
• “As an investment on which he expected a good return, Robert Bloet had been willing to pay £5,000 for his bishopric. Henry of Huntingdon remembered being in Bishop Robert’s household: ‘the handsome knights, noble young men, expensive horses, his golden and gilt dishes, the number of courses, the splendour of his servants, the purple garments and the satins’.”

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