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John Thompson
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American basketball player (1906–1990)
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- 152
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John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in Western musicology (early music) and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 150 melodies published in
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5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,641x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,082x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Deceased Basketball
- Position
- Center
- Nationality
- United States
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. George
- Place of death
- Idaho Falls
- Occupation
- basketball coach
- Educated at
- Utah Tech University
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- shooting guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 72
- Image
- Cat Thompson.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- date of death
- 1990-10-17
- date of birth
- 1906-02-10
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