James Watson

Person · Open Library

Died

1893

Works

65

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1923-03-03

Active to

2012-05-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

581

Total plays

1,646

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,845x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,086x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 64,943x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,219x

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Quotes

• “One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”
• “The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.”
• “There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.”
• “Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.”
• “To have success in science, you need some luck. But to succeed in science, you need a lot more than luck. And it's not enough to be smart — lots of people are very bright and get nowhere in life. In my view, you have to combine intelligence with a willingness not to follow conventions when they block your path forward.”
• “To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people (here I was still following Luria's example). Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.”

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Wikidata facts

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