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John Harvard
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1607
- Died
- 1638
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Christian warfare against the devill world and flesh
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,531x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Southwark , Surrey , England
- Baptised
- ( 1607-11-29 ) 29 November 1607
- Died
- ( 1638-09-14 ) 14 September 1638 (aged 30), Charlestown , Massachusetts Bay Colony , British America
- Cause of death
- Tuberculosis
- Alma mater
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge ( BA , MA )
- Occupation
- Pastor
- Known for
- A founder of Harvard College
- Spouse
- Ann Sadler
- Children
- None
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
John Harvard (1607– 1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the
"schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the
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