John Lewis

Person · Open Library

Born

21 Feb 1940

Died

17 Jul 2020

Works

25

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1935-09-29

Active to

2022-10-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

61,261

Total plays

352,818

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began learning classical music and piano at the age of seven. His family was musical and had a family band that allowed him to play frequently and he also played in a Boy Scout music group. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Lewis">Read more o

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 248,696x

2. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,687x

3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,358x

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

   · 2020 · cited 34,745x

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Quotes

• “Next time we march we may have to keep going when we get to Montgomery. We may have to on to Washington.”
• “I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”
• “I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.”
• “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”
• “A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option. For peace cannot exist where justice is not served. I urge each and everyone of our colleagues to support this legislation.”

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Wikidata facts

Languages spoken

English language

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