Richard Wilbur

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5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,783x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,224x

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

   · 2009 · cited 46,838x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,286x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

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Quotes

• “We milk the cow of the world, and as we doWe whisper in her ear, "You are not true."”
• “Hebetude. It is a graph of a theme that flings The dancer kneeling on nothing into the wings, And Nijinsky hadn't the words to make the laws For learning to loiter in air; he merely said, "I merely leap and pause."”
• “Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best — unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.”
• “What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.”
• “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
• “A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.”

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Key dates

Born

1 March 1921

Died

14 October 2017

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Richard

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Belmont

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

Smith College

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Conflict

World War II

Image

Richard Wilbur 1964 (cropped).jpg

Residence

Belmont

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