Forbes Burnham
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 1985-08-06
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Control of our natural resources
- Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, O.E., S.C. National Assembly speeches
- Address
- Address by Comrade L.F.S. Burnham, Leader of the People's National Congress, Prime Minister of Guyana at the Second Biennial Congress of the People's National Congress, Sophia, August 12-20, 1977
- Declaration of Sophia
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 5
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Guyana until his death in 1985. He led the former British colony, British Guiana, to independence in 1966, and was Guyana's first Prime Minister. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies, and his law degree in England. He was one of the intellectual giants of the Caribbean, as well as a gifted orator. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Forbes+Burnham">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,659x
- Multimodel Inference
· 2004 · cited 10,048x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,908x
- Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals
· 1999 · cited 5,944x
- The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)
· 2015 · cited 5,464x
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 February 1923
- Died
- 6 August 1985
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Guyana
- Place of birth
- Georgetown
- Place of death
- Georgetown
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- premier
- Political party
- People's Progressive Party
- Religion
- Methodism
Connections
Categories
1923 births1985 deathsAlumni of the London School of EconomicsAttorneys general of GuyanaEducation ministers of GuyanaForeign ministers of GuyanaGuyanese expatriates in the United KingdomGuyanese MethodistsLeaders of political partiesPeople from Georgetown, GuyanaPeople's National Congress Reform politiciansPresidents of Guyana