Naomi Mitchison
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Scottish novelist and poet (1897–1999)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1897-11-01
- Died
- 1999-01-11
- Works
- 217
Top works
- The far harbour
- The Alban goes out
- The corn king and the spring queen / by Naomi Mitchison ; with four pictures by Z. Stryjenska being decorations of the Polish National Pavilion in the Paris Exhibition of 1926
- The delicate fire
- The Best war stories
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
· 2013 · cited 14,153x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,398x
- The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis
· 2000 · cited 11,845x
- The 1982 revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus
· 1982 · cited 10,441x
- The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data
· 2018 · cited 9,040x
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Quotes
- “... Obviously my chief authority is Xenophon's ; if I can induce anyone to read this (the Loeb translation is very vivid on the whole) and get as much pleasure out of it as I did, then I shall be — as the good books say — amply rewarded. For actual history I have gone to Cavaignac or . ... 's The Greek Commonwealth is a good book to begin on.”
- “The first thing about science is asking questions; the next—and this includes the bulk of what is called scientific work—is measuring the knowledge and finding new standards of measurement; and the final thing is putting all this knowledge together.”
- “My father was writing one paper after another in conjunction with various people, , , Butterfield, , and others, but especially ...”
- “... readers, remember that my account of what was happening in Sparta or Athens or even Egypt, is all based on real history, but the view was moulded by what I—and many another person—was thinking in the Europe of those days, with Mussolini and his fascists in Italy and already the shadow of Hitler in Germany. If I was writing this book now I might treat my characters and my story differently. But I cannot be certain, even of that.”
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