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Peter Atkins
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British chemist
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It sits within the topics 1940 births, 20th-century atheists and 21st-century atheists.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 136
Top works
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
- Galileo's Finger
- Moontown
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
- Achieve for Chemical Principles
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39
- Total plays
- 283
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,226x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,777x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,935x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,453x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,119x
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Quotes
- “Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it can undergo. The world of chemistry therefore embraces everything material around us—the stones we stand on, the food we eat, the flesh we are made of, and the silicon we build into computers. There is nothing material beyond the reach of chemistry, be it living or dead, vegetable or mineral, on Earth or in a distant star.”
- “The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ...”
- “It was a great achievement of the early chemists — with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason (as potent then as now) — to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight.”
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- Number of children
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- Peter Atkins
- date of birth
- 1940-08-10
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1940 births20th-century atheists21st-century atheistsAlumni of the University of LeicesterBritish atheism activistsBritish critics of religionsBritish textbook writersEnglish atheistsEnglish humanistsEnglish male non-fiction writersEnglish non-fiction writersEnglish physical chemistsFellows of Lincoln College, OxfordFellows of the Royal Society of ChemistryHarkness FellowsLiving peoplePeople educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar SchoolPeople from AmershamScience education in the United KingdomSpouses of life peers