Walter Spence
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Canadian and Guyanan swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist (1901–1958)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1867
- Works
- 7
Top works
- The Devil and Dan Cooley
- Back to Christ
- Captives in Babylon
- Idylls of the king; a spiritual interpretation
- Lyrics of Jesus
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927-03-29
- Active to
- 2016-02-06
Discography
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
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- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Agency (philosophy)SociologyPsychiatryFinanceMachine learning
Most cited works
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,468x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,405x
- 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 15,380x
- 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 13,270x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,052x
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- Walter Spencer (1928).jpg
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- date of death
- 1958-10-16
- date of birth
- 1901-03-03
- birth name
- Walter Percy Spence
- Commons category
- Walter Spence (swimmer)
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United States
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Canada
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New York City
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World War II
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Guyana
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Scotland
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journalism
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Brooklyn
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1928 Summer Olympics
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Trinidad
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1932 Summer Olympics
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piranha
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competitive swimming
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Commonwealth Games
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White Plains
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Rutgers University
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World Alliance of YMCAs
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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swimming at the Summer Olympics
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breaststroke
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Categories
1901 births1958 deaths20th-century Canadian sportsmenAccidental deaths in New York (state)Canadian male breaststroke swimmersCanadian male freestyle swimmersCanadian sportspeople of Guyanese descentCommonwealth Games silver medallists for British GuianaCommonwealth Games silver medallists in swimmingExpatriate swimmers in the United StatesGuyanese emigrants to the United StatesGuyanese male swimmersGuyanese people of Scottish descentIndo-Guyanese peopleMedalists at the 1928 Summer OlympicsMedallists at the 1938 British Empire GamesOlympic bronze medalists for CanadaOlympic bronze medalists in swimmingOlympic swimmers for CanadaPeople from Hawthorne, New YorkPeople from Linden, GuyanaRailway accident deaths in the United StatesRutgers Scarlet Knights men's swimmersSportspeople from Westchester County, New York