Walter Besant

Person · Open Library

Born

14 August 1836

Died

9 June 1901

Works

809

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Belgium

Active from

1983

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7

Total plays

25

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

   · 1983 · cited 31,533x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,790x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,975x

4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,460x

5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

   · 1943 · cited 13,225x

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Quotes

• “This work fascinates me more than anything else I have ever done. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”
• “I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good story that it pleases--or rather, seizes--every period of life; that the child, and his elder brother, and his father, and his grandfather, may read it with like enjoyment.”
• “The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street, and halt at the great gate of the hospital, in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on earth.”
• “Great and Little Wild Streets are called respectively Old and New Weld Streets by Strype. Weld House stood on the site of the present Wild Court, and was during the reign of James II occupied by the Spanish Embassy. In Great Wild Street Benjamin Franklin worked as a journeyman printer.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Walter

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Portsmouth

Place of death

Frognal

Occupation

novelist

Educated at

King's College London

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Knight Bachelor

Image

Walter Besant by Barraud c1880s.jpg

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