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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 50
Top works
- Cannabis y Espiritualidad
- Framework for Linking Climate, Resource Inventories, and Ecosystem Monitorng
- Gustav Stickley after 1909
- Potable Water Solutions
- Artist Is a Thief
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-09-21
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,947
- Total plays
- 42,385
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,079x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,517x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,780x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,347x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,900x
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Key facts
- Born
- December 1666 ( 1666-12 ) , Canterbury, Kent , England
- Died
- February 1736 (1736-02-00) (aged 69), London, England
- Known for
- Being the 'father' of electricity , Electrical conductivity
- Awards
- Copley medal (1731, 1732)
- Fields
- Chemistry , astronomy
- Institutions
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Academic advisors
- Roger Cotes , John Theophilus Desaguliers
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- date of death
- 1736-02-07
- date of birth
- 1666-12-00
- Commons category
- Stephen Gray (scientist)
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Article
Stephen Gray (December 1666 – February 1736) was an English dyer and astronomer who was the first to systematically experiment with electrical conduction. Until his work in 1729 the emphasis had been on the simple generation of static charges and investigations of the static phenomena (electric shocks, plasma glows, etc.). Gray showed that electricity can be conducted through metals and that it appeared on the surfaces of insulators.
Early life