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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