John Thompson
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British sociologist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 152
Top works
- Europe's Crises
- Hidden Voices From Hush-a-bye Rooms
- Prized Ponies
- Securitisation
- The attitudes of male and female students towards teachers, school and school subjects
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-04-03
Discography
- Morris On1972
- Henry the Human Fly1972
- Strict Tempo!1981
- Hand of Kindness1983
- Across a Crowded Room1985
- Daring Adventures1986
- Amnesia1988
- Rumor and Sigh1991
- Mirror Blue1994
- Twangin’ ’n’ a-Traddin’1995
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 706
- Total plays
- 6,448
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John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in Western musicology (early music) and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 150 melodies published in
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,647x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,861x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,825x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
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- date of birth
- 1966-07-20
- start of work period
- 1981-01-01
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