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Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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USA IBM executive and art collector (1874-1956)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1874
- Died
- 1956
- Works
- 9
Top works
- The Inter-American commercial arbitration commission
- As a man thinks
- Education and world peace
- O Novo Presidente do Brasil
- Visita del excelentísimo señor don Gabriel González Videla, Presidente de la República de Chile, a los Estados Unidos de América, 12 de abril-3 de mayo de 1950
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1935-02-03
- Active to
- 1996-05-17
Discography
- Johnny “Guitar” Watson1963
- The Blues Soul Of1965
- The Larry Williams Show Featuring Johnny 'Guitar' Watson With The Stormsville Shakers1965
- Bad1967
- In The Fats Bag, The Johnny Watson Trio Plays Fats Waller1967
- Two for the Price of One1967
- Listen1973
- I Don’t Want to Be Alone, Stranger1975
- Ain’t That a Bitch1976
- A Real Mother for Ya1977
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,672x
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,321x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,293x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 60,032x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,118x
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Key facts
- Born
- Thomas John Watson , ( 1874-02-17 ) February 17, 1874, Campbell, New York , U.S.
- Died
- June 19, 1956 (1956-06-19) (aged 82), Manhattan , New York City, U.S.
- Occupations
- Chairman and CEO of IBM 1914–1956
- Spouse
- Jeanette M. Kittredge ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1913 )
- Children
- 4, including Thomas Watson Jr. and Arthur K. Watson
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines.
Watson authorized providing Nazi Germany with data processing solutions and involved IBM in cooperation throughout the 1930s and until the end of World War II, profiting from both the German and American war efforts. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time when he died in 1956.
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