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John S. Foster Jr.

Also known as John Foster Jr., John Stuart Foster Jr.

físico norte-americano

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Born: 1922
Works: 3

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Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
The Canadian nuclear power program
Status of the development of the antiballistic missile systems in the United States

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1685-03-21
Active to: 1750-07-28

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

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Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

· 2000 · cited 36,302x

Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

· 2007 · cited 34,187x

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

· 1992 · cited 28,819x

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date of birth: 1922-09-18
date of death: 2025-04-25

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Republican Party (United States)

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Robert McNamara

United States Department of Defense

Northrop Grumman Corporation

electromagnetic pulse

Bachelor of Science

Physicists from Connecticut

Scientists from New Haven, Connecticut

United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II

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National Ignition Facility

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