Dr. Demento
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American disc jockey
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Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Hansen [1], who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. Legend has it, after Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, someone said that he had to be demented to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and i
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5 total works indexed
- Toward an Integrated Clinical, Molecular and Serological Classification of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Report of a Working Party of the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology
· 2005 · cited 2,781x
- Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
· 2021 · cited 2,417x
- Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy of Biological Tissues
· 2008 · cited 1,651x
- The compressive behavior of bone as a two-phase porous structure
· 1977 · cited 1,551x
- Depletion of B cells in vivo by a chimeric mouse human monoclonal antibody to CD20
· 1994 · cited 1,539x
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- 1941-04-02
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- name in native language
- Barry Hansen
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- Barret Eugene Hansen
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- 1970-00-00
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