Stephen Leacock

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5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,083x

2. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 40,517x

3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

   · 2021 · cited 27,780x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,347x

5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

   · 1991 · cited 22,900x

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Quotes

• “Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
• “Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.”
• “Americans are queer people: they can't rest.”
• “The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.”
• “With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.”
• “It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”

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Key facts

Born

Stephen Butler Leacock , 30 December 1869, Swanmore , Hampshire , England

Died

28 March 1944 (1944-03-28) (aged 74), Toronto , Ontario , Canada

Language

English

Education

Upper Canada College

Alma mater

University of Toronto , University of Chicago

Genre

Humour

Subject

Sciences

Notable works

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; My Financial Career

Notable awards

Lorne Pierce Medal , Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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