Nicholas Metropolis
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nicholas Constantine Metropolis, Nick Metropolis
Greek American physicist (1915–1999)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 1999
- Works
- 8
Top works
- History of Computing in the Twentieth Century
- Symbolic dynamics of trapezoidal maps
- New directions in physics
- A New era in computation
- Frontiers of supercomputing
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1979
estados unidosheavy metalpower metalprogressive metal
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 9
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,962x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,406x
- Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles
· 1985 · cited 18,711x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
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Quotes
- “Most of us have grown so blase about computer developments and capabilities — even some that are spectacular — that it is difficult to believe or imagine there was a time when we suffered the noisy, painstakingly slow, electromechanical devices that chomped away on punched cards.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Los Alamos
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Employer
- Santa Fe Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Academic degree
- professor
- Field of work
- informatics
- Image
- Nicholas Metropolis Los Alamos identity badge photo.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1915-06-11
- date of death
- 1999-10-17
- Commons category
- Nicholas Metropolis
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- Nicholas Constantine Metropolis
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Νικόλαος Κωνσταντίνος Μητρόπουλος
Sources (2)
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