John Clive Ward

Person · Open Library

Born

25 Feb 1916

Died

1 Dec 2001

Works

581

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-07-15

Active to

2020-02-24

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,615x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,656x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,917x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,587x

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

   · 1992 · cited 29,134x

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Quotes

• “(\left|x\right\rang \left|y\right\rang- \left|y\right\rang \left|x\right\rang) ... was my first lesson in quantum mechanics, and in a very real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books.”
• “The inner mysteries of quantum mechanics require a willingness to extend one’s mental processes into a strange world of phantom possibilities, endlessly branching into more and more abstruse chains of coupled logical networks, endlessly extending themselves forward and even backwards in time.”
• “One day I had the idea of radiation implosion. As in all ideas that have ever popped up in my head, there is no way I can trace the source.”
• “Dynamical variables are what count in physics, not coordinate or gauge transformations.”
• “Almost all the serious achievements are simple in principle... the ideas must be sufficiently simple.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

John

Family name

Ward

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

London

Place of death

Victoria

Occupation

professor

Educated at

University of Oxford

Employer

University of Miami

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

theoretical physics

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