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Bill Smith
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Melvin Smith, Jr., Billy Smith
American swimmer (1924–2013)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 121
Top works
- Alice, the musical
- The Capistrano Story
- The history of Pooncarie and district
- Completa Guía de Viajes
- Search for the Grave
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- 2,315
- Total plays
- 11,110
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William Overton Smith (Bill), composer, clarinet; b. Sacramento, California, 1926. Clarinet at 10: theory, harmony at 16. To NYC; studied at Juilliard; later for several years with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, California. While at Mills, met fellow-student Dave Brubeck ans formed octet with him. M.A. in music 1952; became teacher at colleges while continuing to play and write all kinds of music including jazz. Won Prix de Rome, later settled in Rome working on Guggenheim grant. <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,757x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,857x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,634x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 24,188x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Rugby
- Team
- Sydney Roosters
- Position
- Center
- Nationality
- Australia
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Wikidata facts
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- Bill Smith swimmer 1941.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1924-05-16
- date of death
- 2013-02-08
- birth name
- William Melvin Smith, Jr.
- name in native language
- Bill Smith
- Commons category
- Bill Smith (swimmer)
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