John W. Gardner

Person · Open Library

Works

29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1956

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,644x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,680x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,923x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,594x

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

   · 1992 · cited 29,138x

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Quotes

• “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
• “More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.”
• “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
• “History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.”
• “We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

John

Family name

Gardner

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Los Angeles

Place of death

Palo Alto

Occupation

politician

Political party

Republican Party (United States)

Image

JohnGardnerWHF.jpg

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