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John Ziman

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Also known as John Michael Ziman, John M. Ziman, J. M. Ziman

New Zealand physicist (1925-2005)

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  • Expensive medical techniques
  • Science in Civil Society
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  • Real Science
  • introducción al estudio de las ciencias

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Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States

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5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,670x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,728x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,357x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,339x

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

    · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

  • ...the 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.
  • A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
  • The communication of modern science to the ordinary citizen, necessary, important, desirable as it is, cannot be considered an easy task. The prime obstacle is lack of education. … There is also the difficulty of making scientific discoveries interesting and exciting without completely degrading them intellectually. … It is a weakness of modern science that the scientist shrinks from this sort of publicity, and thus gives an impression of arrogant mystagoguery.
  • Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

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date of birth
1925-05-16
date of death
2005-01-02
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