Gregory Benford
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science fiction author and astrophysicist
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Vinony's link graph records 571 inbound references to Gregory Benford, and connects out to physics, atheism and galaxy.
Vinony files it under 1941 births, 20th-century American male writers and 20th-century American novelists.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- January 30, 1941
- Works
- 149
Top works
- The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
- The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
- Meeting Infinity
- The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
- Loosed Upon the World
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 59
- Total plays
- 435
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,317x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “While politicians wrangled on the front pages of our newspapers, quiet revolutions looked within. Only occasionally did the news I thought most notable make the front page. All of it hinged on the steady building of connections which marks modern science.”
- “Science is about continuity of ideas, a web of connections.”
- “—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.”
- “I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.”
- “She had once looked up the term ‘lawyer’ and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.”
- “When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-01-30 ) January 30, 1941 (age 85) , Mobile, Alabama , U.S.
- Occupation
- Physicist, writer
- Education
- University of Oklahoma ( BS ), University of California, San Diego ( MS ), ( PhD )
- Genre
- Science fiction , hard science fiction
- Notable works
- Galactic Center Saga novels
- Spouse
- Joan Abbe (died 2002) Elisabeth Brown
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.gregorybenford.com
- Image
- Greg Benford Eaton 2008-05-17.png
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1941-01-30
- Commons category
- Gregory Benford
- name in native language
- Gregory Benford
- pseudonym
- Sterling Blake
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Encyclopedic overview
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga science fiction novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). The series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gregory Benford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.