Richard Porson

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5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,776x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,217x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,836x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,244x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,712x

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Quotes

• “To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."”
• “When Billy found he scarce could stand, "Help, help!" he cried, and stretch'd his hand,      To faithful Henry calling: Quoth Hal, "My friend, I'm sorry for't; 'Tis not my practice to support      A minister that's falling."”
• “"Who's up ?" inquired Burke of a friend at the door, "Oh, no one," says Paddy, "tho' Pitt's on the floor."”
• “A little garden little Jowett made, And fenced it with a little palisade; A little taste hath little Dr. Jowett; This little garden doth a little show it.”
• “Here lies a Doctor of Divinity, Who was a Fellow too of Trinity; He knew as much about Divinity As other Fellows do of Trinity.”
• “I went to Frankfort and got drunk With that most learn'd Professor Brunck: I went to Wortz and got more drunken With that more learn'd Professor Ruhnken.”

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