John Whitney
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Whitney, Sr., John Whitney (animator), John Hales Whitney, John Hales Whitney, Sr.
American animator (1917-1995)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Materials for the study of local history in Japan
- Patterns of stability and change in rural Japanese politics
- Modern trends in Tokugawa Japan
- History of the world
- Japan
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1963-08-09
- Active to
- 2012-02-11
adult contemporaryadult contemporary r&bcontemporary r&bdancedance-popdisco
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 196
- Total plays
- 390
John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917 – September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Whitney">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,670x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,728x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x
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- date of birth
- 1917-04-08
- date of death
- 1995-09-22
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1917 births1995 deaths20th-century American composers20th-century American inventors20th-century American male composersAmerican animated film directorsAmerican experimental filmmakersArtists from Pasadena, CaliforniaComposers from CaliforniaComputer graphics pioneersPomona College alumniVisual music artists