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Also known as John Henry Parr

British World War I casualty

Person · Open Library

Works
27

Top works

  • How i cured my doudenal ulcer
  • Say Uncle
  • Introduction to Guidelines
  • Guidelines May - August 2001
  • Guidelines January - April 2001

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1952-11-18

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
277,387
Total plays
1,932,746

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rock80sclassic rockbritishpop

John Parr (born November 18, 1954, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a British rock musician who had considerable success in the 80s, having two chart topping hits in the United States. His 'signature song', "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", reached the top 40 in over six different nations and continues to be played worldwide, particularly in support of disabled athletes (the song being written on behalf of Canadian wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen, the 'man in motion'). <a href="https://www.last.fm/m

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,169x

  2. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 94,860x

  3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,509x

  4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,302x

  5. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,187x

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date of birth
1897-07-19
date of death
1914-08-21
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John Parr
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