John Irving

Person · Open Library

Born

2 march 1942

Works

254

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1942-03-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,193

Total plays

36,159

John Irving is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Ogden, Utah. He has independently released one album. The album is entitled "Gluttony, Alcohol, Misogyny, Ukulele" and features the single "Ecstasy". He is perhaps best known for posting covers on Youtube of popular songs, transcribed to the ukulele. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Irving">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,620x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,712x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,354x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,338x

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

   · 1992 · cited 28,853x

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Quotes

• “He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”
• “Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
• “Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”
• “In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
• “To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”
• “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

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Sports profile

Sport

Basketball

Team

_Deceased Basketball

Nationality

United States

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Wikidata facts

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