John W. Campbell

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Works

63

Cited by

5,199

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,187x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,528x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,305x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,190x

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

   · 1992 · cited 28,820x

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Quotes

• “The world’s prize stupid oaf is the man who thinks he already has all the answers.”
• “A successful crackpot is still a crackpot.”
• “The curve of progress in the physical sciences is, assuredly, still rising rapidly. But I wonder how fast the curve of human-effort-invested-per-discovery-achieved is rising?”
• “Hypnosis has been a seriously neglected factor of the human mind; now it must be attacked as a major engineering problem. For once, we have an aspect of the mind that ties directly into a solid engineering job; it will require that psychology submit to that harshest of all disciplines—the absolutely inflexible, utterly autocratic, uncompromisingly dogmatic discipline of “Does it work?””
• “Logic happens to be one of the levels of reality; ignoring it is perfectly possible, just as it is possible for a drunken driver to ignore the concrete-and-steel bridge abutment in his path. The difficulty is that logic—like the bridge-abutment—won’t ignore the individual man.”
• “Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.”

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Key dates

Born

8 June 1910

Died

11 July 1971

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

John

Family name

Campbell

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Newark

Place of death

Mountainside

Occupation

editing staff

Position held

editor-in-chief

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Religion

atheism

Award

Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine

Genre

science fiction

Image

14th WSFS 008 - 1956 John Campbell cropped.jpg

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