Michael Witzel

Person · Open Library

Works

16

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1955

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 85,293x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,759x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,924x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,509x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,972x

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Quotes

• “I would not care, eg, if the IA-s could be shown to emerge from the proto-Masai culture of E-Africa.”
• “"In Europe, river names were found to reflect the languages spoken before the influx of Indo-European speaking populations. They are thus older than c. 4500-2500 B.C. (depending on the date of the spread of Indo-European languages in various parts of Europe)... “in northern India rivers in general have early Sanskrit names from the Vedic period, and names derived from the daughter languages of Sanskrit later on" (WITZEL 1995a:104-105).”
• ““apart from archaeology, our principal source for the early period must be. the Rigveda…””
• “Since the SarasvatI, which dries up progressively after the mid 2nd millennium BC is still described as a mighty river in the Rigveda, the earliest hymns in the latter must have been composed by C.1500 BC. (p. 98)”
• ““A better case for the early linguistic and ethnic history of South Asia can be made by investigating the names of rivers. In Europe river-names were found to reflect the languages spoken before the influx of Indo-European speaking populations. They are thus older than c. 4500-2500 BC (depending on the date of the spread of Indo-European languages in various parts of Europe). It would be fascinating to gain a similar vantage point for the prehistory of South Asia.” (p 104-5)”
• ““in northern India, rivers in general have early Sanskrit names from the Vedic period, and names derived from the daughter languages of Sanskrit later on.” (p 105)”

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