Nicholas Parsons

Person · Open Library

Works

23

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1923-10-10

Active to

2020-01-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

719

Total plays

5,791

Nicholas Parsons OBE (born Christopher Nicholas Parsons on 10 October 1923 in Grantham, Lincolnshire) is a British actor and radio and television presenter. He started his career while training as an engineering apprentice; he was found by Canadian impresario Carroll Levis, doing impressions and working in small repertory theatres in Glasgow. Parsons has been the host of the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute since it was first broadcast on 22 December 1967. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,965x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,415x

4. Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles

   · 1985 · cited 18,712x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,797x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Nicholas

Family name

Parsons

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Grantham

Place of death

Aylesbury

Spouse

Denise Bryer

Occupation

comedian

Position held

rector

Employer

St. Andrews University

Political party

Liberal Democrats

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Image

Nicholas Parsons 2007.png

Number of children

2

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