Robert Stawell Ball

Person · Open Library

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1962-06-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,805x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,572x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,854x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,814x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,527x

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Quotes

• “The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”
• “The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”
• “All screws of a given pitch belonging to a system of the third order are the generators of a certain hyperboloid. There is... a different hyperboloid for each pitch. ...all these hyperboloids are concentric.”
• “The intrinsic brightness of the Sun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.”

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