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John William Draper
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British-American academic (1811-1882)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1811
- Died
- 1882
- Works
- 66
Top works
- History of the intellectual developement of Europe
- Istorii︠a︡ otnosheniĭ mezhdu katolit︠s︡izmomʺ i naukoĭ
- Elements of chemistry
- History of the intellectual development of Europe
- Historia de los conflictos entre la religión y la ciencia
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,416x
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,917x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,815x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,543x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,531x
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Quotes
- “Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.”
- “Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”
- “Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all others, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race—Mohammed… To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a messenger of God.”
- “"But, though the Church hath evermore from Holy Writ affirmed that the earth should be a wide-spread plain bordered by the waters, yet he [Magellan] comforted himself when he considered that in the eclipses of the moon the shadow cast of the earth is round; and as is the shadow, such, in like manner, is the substance." It was a stout heart - a heart of triple brass - which could thus, against such authority, extract unyielding faith from a shadow.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1811-05-05 ) May 5, 1811, St. Helens , Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
- Died
- January 4, 1882 (1882-01-04) (aged 70), Hastings-on-Hudson , New York, United States
- Alma mater
- University College London , University of Pennsylvania
- Known for
- Photochemistry , Draper point , Grotthuss–Draper law
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1875)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
15 objects attributed to John William Draper, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English polymath: a scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with pioneering portrait photography (1839–40) and producing the first detailed photograph of the moon in 1840. He was also the first president of the American Chemical Society (1876–77) and a founder of the New York University School of Medicine.
One of Draper's books, the History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, popularised the conflict thesis proposing intrinsic hostility in the relationship between religion and science. It was widely read and was translated into several languages. It makes minimal use of primary sources and is now recognized as thoroughly inaccurate .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John William Draper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.