Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 March 1931
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Roadkills
- Architecture of Nature
- The second John McPhee reader
- The crofter and the laird
- Tabula Rasa, Volume 1
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- Listeners
- 32,249
- Total plays
- 183,766
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Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,187x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,305x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,190x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x
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Quotes
- “Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.”
- “In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.johnmcphee.com
- Image
- John Mcphee.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1931-03-08
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1931 births20th-century American non-fiction writers21st-century American non-fiction writersAlumni of Magdalene College, CambridgeAmerican expatriates in the United KingdomAmerican non-fiction environmental writersDeerfield Academy alumniJohn Burroughs Medal recipientsLiving peopleMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersOpen Library ID same as WikidataPrinceton High School (New Jersey) alumniPrinceton University alumniPrinceton University facultyPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winnersThe New Yorker peopleThe New Yorker staff writersWriters from Princeton, New Jersey