John Freely

Person · Open Library

Born

1926

Works

7

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

United States

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

3

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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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Quotes

• “Newton's proof of the law of refraction is based on an erroneous notion that light travels faster in glass than in air, the same error that Descartes had made. This error stems from the fact that both of them thought that light was corpuscular in nature.”
• “Although many historians of the new millennium now take issue with the notion of a Scientific Revolution, it is generally agreed that Newton's work culminated the long development of European science, creating a synthesis that opened the way for the scientific culture of the modern age.”
• “Parmenides believed that all Being is what he called the One, and denied absolutely the possibility of change. He believed that the cosmos is full (i.e., no void), uncreated, eternal, indestructible, unchangeable, immobile sphere of being, and all sensory evidence to the contrary is illusory. One Parmenidean fragment stated, "Either a thing is or it is not," meaning that creation and destruction is impossible.”
• “The atomic theory was not generally accepted in the time of Democritus, largely because of its deterministic character, for it allows no chance, choice, or free will.”
• “Empedocles tried to address the problem of change by saying that there is not one fundamental arche but four—earth, water, air, and fire—which generate all the material substances in nature by mixing together in various ways under the influence of forces he called Love and Strife.”
• “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (0. 500—428 BC) postulated another element called the aether, which was in constant rotation and carried with it the celestial bodies. He also believed that there was a directing intelligence in nature that he called Nous which gives order to what otherwise would be a chaotic universe. By Nous he meant literally "the Mind of the Cosmos"… Anaxagoras was the last of the Ionian physicists.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

John

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Brooklyn

Place of death

Istanbul

Occupation

teacher

Educated at

University of Oxford

Employer

Boğaziçi University

Languages spoken

English language

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