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John S. Foster, Jr.

Also known as John Foster Jr., John Stuart Foster Jr.

American physicist

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Born: 1922
Works: 3

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Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
The Canadian nuclear power program
Status of the development of the antiballistic missile systems in the United States

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Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1685-03-21
Active to: 1750-07-28

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

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1922 births 2025 deaths 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists American expatriates in Canada American men centenarians Deaths from congestive heart failure in California Enrico Fermi Award recipients Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff Members of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering

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· 2021 · cited 41,509x

Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

· 2000 · cited 36,302x

Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

· 2007 · cited 34,187x

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

· 1992 · cited 28,819x

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Harvard University

Republican Party (United States)

University of California, Berkeley

Legion of Honour

Doctor of Philosophy

McGill University

Robert McNamara

United States Department of Defense

Northrop Grumman Corporation

electromagnetic pulse

Bachelor of Science

Physicists from Connecticut

Scientists from New Haven, Connecticut

United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II

United States Department of Defense officials

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National Ignition Facility

Fractional Orbital Bombardment System

Solomon J. Buchsbaum

inertial confinement fusion

President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Project Excalibur

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

unmanned combat aerial vehicle

John Stuart Foster

1922 in the United States

Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Enrico Fermi Award

Norman Ralph Augustine

Howard P. Robertson

Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award

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