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John Augustus Roebling

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German-American engineer

Person · Open Library

Born
1806
Died
1869
Works
13

Top works

  • Niagara Falls International Bridge Company
  • The East River Bridge
  • 500 ton of wire wanted
  • Final report of John A. Roebling, civil engineer, to the presidents and directors of the Niagara Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls International Bridge Companies
  • Diary of my journey from Muehlhausen in Thuringia via Bremen to the United States of North America in the year 1831

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,463x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,565x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,889x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,553x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,122x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Augustus
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Mühlhausen/Thuringia
Place of death
New York City
Occupation
businessperson
Educated at
Bauakademie
Languages spoken
German
Notable work
Brooklyn Bridge
Field of work
civil engineering
Image
Brooklyn Museum - John Augustus Roebling.jpg
Show 9 more facts
birth name
Johann August Röbling
Commons gallery
John A. Roebling
Commons category
John A. Roebling
date of birth
1806-06-12
date of death
1869-07-22
cause of death
tetanus
manner of death
natural causes
relative
Mason Cook
name in native language
John Augustus Roebling
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