John Jacob Niles

Person · Open Library

Born

1892

Died

1980

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1892-04-28

Active to

1980-03-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

24,976

Total plays

203,035

John Jacob Niles (born April 28, 1892 in Louisville, Kentucky, died March 1, 1980 in Lexington, Kentucky) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. He is often called "The Dean of American Balladeers". Niles is well known for his original song "Go 'Way From My Window", as well as the many traditional ballads he collected in the Appalachian region of the United States, such as "Pretty Polly" and "Barbara Allen". He also composed the haunting Christmas song "I Wonder

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,214x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,472x

3. A power primer.

   · 1992 · cited 41,556x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,863x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,397x

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