Gus Backus

Person · Open Library

Born

1937

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1937-09-12

Active to

2019-02-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

27,376

Total plays

163,281

Donald Edgar "Gus" Backus (September 12, 1937 – February 21, 2019) was an American singer and a member of The Del-Vikings. After he was stationed as an Airman in the U.S. Air Force at Wiesbaden Air Base in 1957, Backus had to leave The Del-Vikings but he later became a popular singer of Schlager music in 1960s West Germany. He sang all his songs in German with an American accent. 19 of his songs between 1960 and 1967 made the charts, including eight Top Ten hits. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,740x

2. Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990–2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   · 2017 · cited 2,842x

3. 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 2,431x

4. Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?

   · 1978 · cited 1,846x

5. The high-throughput highway to computational materials design

   · 2013 · cited 1,824x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.gusbackus.de

Image

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