John Burgess
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American political scientist (1844–1931)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 98
Top works
- Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Co., plaintiff v. Eastern Carolina Warehousing Corporation and Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association, defendants
- 1977
- Historic Villages of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex
- Why Read Pavel Florensky?
- Restoration of the Turning Basin and Tidal Wetlands at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931-05-28
- Active to
- 2017-08-18
Discography
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John D. Burgess. MBE 1934 - 2005. John D Burgess is a phenomenon in the world of piping. At the age of four he began to take an interest in playing when his father made a scaled-down practice chanter for him. When he was ten he went for lessons to the legendary Pipe Major William Ross at Edinburgh Castle, and from this his rise was meteoric. From being an infant prodigy he beacame a boy genius, whose playing in juvenile competitions brought professional pipers in large numbers into the audie
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,416x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,543x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,882x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,543x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,119x
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Quotes
- “It is difficult to see why the most advantageous political system, for the present, would not be a democratic state with an artistocratic government, provided only the artistocracy be that of real merit, and not of artificial qualities. If this be not the real principle of the republican form of government then I must confess that I do not know what its principle is.”
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