John Thompson
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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
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- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,187x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,834x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,743x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,617x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,330x
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- 1749-03-20
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- 1823-09-30
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