Derek Abbott

Person · Open Library

Works

10

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1922-12-29

Active to

1977-04-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,655x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,699x

3. A Method of Computing the Effectiveness of an Insecticide

   · 1925 · cited 11,049x

4. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

   · 2014 · cited 9,235x

5. <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

   · 2004 · cited 8,896x

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Quotes

• “My advice to all students is to question everything! You never know where a "silly question" may lead you.”
• “My starting point is as an academic who always thought nuclear was the answer, but who then looked at the figures and came to an inescapable conclusion that solar-hydrogen is the long-term future. I did not come at this as a green evangelist. I am a reluctant convert.”
• “One can justify solar-hydrogen simply on grounds of economic resource viability without any green agenda.”
• “The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources.”
• “The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole. It's rather like the play The Little Shop of Horrors where a man-eating plant is initially fed small amounts, but then its voracious appetite sends it into a downward spiral swallowing up anyone that gets in its way.”
• “Efficiency is not the issue when you go solar. There is so much solar that all you have to do is invest in the non-recurring cost of more dishes to drive a solar-hydrogen economy at whatever efficiency it happens to sit at.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Derek

Family name

Abbott

Gender

male

Place of birth

South Kensington

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

University of Adelaide

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

biomedical engineering

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