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Also known as John Gates Powell

American discus thrower (1947–2022)

Person · Open Library

Born
1925
Works
104

Top works

  • Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?
  • Ironbridge Gorge Through Time
  • Return To The Garden City
  • Solving the riddle of self
  • A theology of the apostolate of the church

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1963-09-18

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
825,790
Total plays
21,729,014

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SoundtrackinstrumentalcomposerClassicalscore

John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Robots, Happy Feet (and its sequel), three Ice Age sequels, Rio, and the How to Train Your Dragon film series, for which he was nominated for an

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,169x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,509x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,302x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,187x

  5. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 30,366x

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Sports profile

Sport
Cricket
Team
_Retired Cricket
Position
Cricketer
Nationality
New Zealand

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Wikidata facts

Mass
110
Image
John Powell discus 1972.jpg
Height
188
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date of birth
1947-06-25
date of death
2022-08-18
name in native language
John Powell
end of work period
1987-00-00
start of work period
1968-00-00
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