Randall Munroe

Person · Open Library

Born

1984-10-17

Works

5

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1984-10-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

409

Total plays

3,862

Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American webcomic author, former NASA roboticist, and the creator of the webcomic http://xkcd.com/. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following, and after leaving NASA he became a professional webcomic artist. He has also started a project called "What if?" where users post questions to the website which are usually absurd and physics/math related, and he answers them using his own knowledge as well as various sources from the web. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 248,533x

2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,170x

3. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,212x

4. Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase

   · 1988 · cited 8,634x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,904x

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Key dates

Born

1984

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Patrick

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Easton

Employer

Langley Research Center

Languages spoken

English language

Official website

xkcd.com

Image

Randall Munroe 2016.jpg