William Fairbairn
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir Fairbairn, Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Bt.
Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Iron - Its History, Properties, and Processes of Manufacture
- Iron
- Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges
- Treatise on Iron Ship Building
- Étude Autour du Sac d'après la Pratique et le Souvenir du Service À Trois Ans
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 19
From the age of 5 William has been composing, and in 2005 at age 8 recorded his first CD William Alive. William enjoys playing all types of music; classical, jazz, blues, pop and R&R. Won 3rd place of the instrumental section in the Pacific Songwriting Competition for Shark Catching the Rainbow Fish that was composed at age 7. William was also the youngest to enter. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Fairbairn">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,950x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,835x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,551x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Kelso
- Place of death
- Compton
- Occupation
- inventor
- Position held
- president
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Noble title
- baronet
- Field of work
- naval architecture
- Image
- Fairbairn William.jpg
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- William Fairbairn
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- date of birth
- 1789-02-19
- date of death
- 1874-08-18
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- P12749
- Amphibolidae
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