Alex North

Person · Open Library

Born

1976

Works

32

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Listeners

67,612

Total plays

454,046

Alex North (December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire). North was nominated for 15 Oscars, but did not win until receiving the lifetime achievement Academy Award in 1986. Among his many film scores are Spartacus, Cleopatra, Streetcar Named Desire, Death of A Salesman, Dragonslayer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Viva Zapata. North composed the music to the timeless hit song, "Unchained Melody

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5 total works indexed

1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,528x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,528x

3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

   · 2017 · cited 31,315x

4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 22,894x

5. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

   · 1990 · cited 22,245x

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