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John D. Lawson

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Also known as John David Lawson

British engineer and physicist (1923–2008)

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John D. Lawson was a British physicist and engineer who specialized in nuclear physics. Born in Coventry in 1923, he was educated at the University of Cambridge and St John's College. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Lawson spoke English.

He was a member of the Royal Society and was recognized in the Royal Society collection. His professional achievements included receiving the Young Medal and Prize and becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in Abingdon-on-Thames in 2008.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1852
Died
1921
Works
12

Top works

  • A digest of the first twenty volumes of the Nevada reports
  • The adjudged cases in the American and English reports wherein the different defences to crime are contained
  • Cases on quasi-contracts
  • The making of a contract
  • The law of expert and opinion evidence reduced to rules

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1945-04-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
21

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,672x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,689x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,923x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,597x

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

    · 1992 · cited 29,138x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
David
Family name
Lawson
Gender
male
Place of birth
Coventry
Place of death
Abingdon-on-Thames
Occupation
engineer
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
physics
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date of birth
1923-04-04
date of death
2008-01-15
member of
Royal Society
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