Сирил Норткот Паркинсон

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5 total works indexed

1. Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK

   · 2021 · cited 4,133x

2. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation

   · 2007 · cited 3,894x

3. The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019

   · 2018 · cited 3,883x

4. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,590x

5. THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE<i>FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE</i>MISSION

   · 2009 · cited 3,421x

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Quotes

• “It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.”
• “Expenditure rises to meet income.”
• “Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
• “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
• “A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”
• “The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.”

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Key facts

Born

Cyril Northcote Parkinson , ( 1909-07-30 ) July 30, 1909, Barnard Castle , County Durham, England

Died

9 March 1993 (1993-03-09) (aged 83), Canterbury , Kent, England

Resting place

Canterbury

Occupation

Naval historian

Education

University of Cambridge , King's College London

Subject

Naval history

Notable works

Parkinson's Law (1957)

Notable awards

Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History

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Wikidata facts

Image

Cyril Northcote Parkinson 1961.jpg

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