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Joe Louis
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American boxer (1914-1981)
OverviewAI-generated
Joe Louis was an American boxer whose professional career spanned from 1934 to 1949. Born on May 13, 1914, and dying on April 12, 1981, he stood 188 units tall and weighed 99 units. Over the course of his career, he competed in 71 matches, recording 68 wins and 3 losses.
Louis was also an author with nine listed works, including *Joe Louis, My Life*, *Born to fight*, and *How to box*. His writings also include *Joe Louis scrapbooks, 1935-1944*. A quote attributed to him states, "He can run, but he can't hide."
Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, OpenAlex, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914
- Died
- 1981
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Joe Louis, My Life
- Born to fight
- How to box
- Joe Louis
- Joe Louis scrapbooks, 1935-1944
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,815
- Total plays
- 5,896
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Louis">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 107
- Cited by
- 3,249
Research areas
Most cited works
- A protein from the salivary glands of the pea aphid, <i>Acyrthosiphon pisum</i> , is essential in feeding on a host plant2008 · 375 cit
- Plant defense against aphids, the pest extraordinaire2018 · 254 cit
- <i>TREHALOSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE11</i>‐dependent trehalose metabolism promotes <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> defense against the phloem‐feeding insect <i>Myzus persicae</i>2011 · 162 cit
- Plant Tolerance: A Unique Approach to Control Hemipteran Pests2016 · 141 cit
- Phloem‐based resistance to green peach aphid is controlled by Arabidopsis <i>PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT4</i> without its signaling partner <i>ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY1</i>2007 · 135 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,623x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
- PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet
· 2011 · cited 16,218x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- <i>WinGX</i>suite for small-molecule single-crystal crystallography
· 1999 · cited 15,221x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “He can run, but he can't hide.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chambers County
- Place of death
- Las Vegas
- Occupation
- referee
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- boxing
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 99
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Image
- Joe Louis 1935 portrait by Acme.jpg
- Height
- 188
Show 15 more facts
- place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Commons category
- Joe Louis
- date of birth
- 1914-05-13
- date of death
- 1981-04-12
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- nickname
- The Brown Bomber
- start of work period
- 1934-07-04
- writing language
- English language
- sports discipline competed in
- heavyweight
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- end of work period
- 1949-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 71
- number of wins
- 68
- number of losses
- 3
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Brown Bomber", Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949. He was victorious in 25 consecutive title defenses, a record for all weight classes. Louis has the longest single reign as champion of any boxer in history.
Louis's cultural impact was felt well outside the ring. He is widely regarded as the first African-American to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joe Louis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.