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George Davis Snell

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Also known as George Davise Snell, George D. Snell, George Snell

American geneticist

OverviewAI-generated

George Davis Snell was an American individual who lived from 1903 to 1996. He is recognized as a Nobel Laureate, having received one Nobel Prize. His work is associated with the field of Medicine. Snell has been acknowledged in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, as well as the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Medicine collections.

Records indicate that Snell authored five or six works, depending on the source. He is referenced by 427 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1903
Died
1996
Works
6

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1926-05-26
Active to
1991-09-28

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

    · 2007 · cited 79,940x

  2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,004x

  3. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 48,627x

  4. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

    · 1989 · cited 45,415x

  5. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

    · 2015 · cited 40,872x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
December 19, 1903, Bradford, Massachusetts , U.S
Died
June 6, 1996 (1996-06-06) (aged 92), Bar Harbor, Maine , U.S
Education
Dartmouth College ( BS ), Harvard University ( DSc )
Known for
Discovery of H2
Spouse
Rhoda Carson
Awards
1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , 1978 Wolf Prize in Medicine
Fields
genetics , immunologist
Institutions
Jackson Laboratory , Brown University , Washington University School of Medicine
Doctoral advisor
William E. Castle

via Wikipedia infobox

Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1980

    for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

    Shared · 1/3 portion

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Encyclopedic overview

George Davis Snell NAS (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.

Work

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “George Davis Snell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.