Brian Greene

Person · Open Library

Born

9 Feb 1963

Works

27

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1963-02-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,417

Total plays

20,469

Brian Greene, born in New York and a professor at Columbia University, is a theoretical physicist and string theorist most widely known publicly for his books "The Elegant Universe" and "Fabric of the Cosmos" as well as related PBS television specials. Greene entered Harvard in 1980 to concentrate on physics and after completing his bachelor's degree, earned his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. At Columbia, Greene is co-director of the university's Institute for Strings <a h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,752x

2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

   · 1991 · cited 26,466x

3. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,297x

4. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,166x

5. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,819x

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Quotes

• “The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.”
• “... the have to be curled up into this so-called Calabi-Yau shape, or ... it's a that is as close as you can be to being flat without literally being a flat shape ... In six dimensions you can have something that is known as ...”

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Wikidata facts

Mass

102

Height

203

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