William Irwin Thompson

Person · Open Library

Born

16 July 1938

Works

29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

FI

Active from

1943-09-14

Active to

1991-01-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

14

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,493x

2. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 51,834x

3. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 51,782x

4. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,862x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,972x

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Quotes

• “There's been a kind of shift with the new electronic media away from education as a social glue that holds multicultural, diverse immigrant society together, to the state of entertainment. People are basically receiving their information in abstract, disembodied forms, whether its Internet or its World Wide Web or television or the rest of it. And with that has come a kind of dumbing down; there's a lack of emotional commitment to education.”
• “The interface between an industrial economy and the biosphere is what the industrial nation state can’t handle. So the new culture isn't based on nation state turf; it's based on biological, ecological processes, so the atmosphere is more the model than the land. And the science that would describe the processes of the atmosphere are more the new complex dynamical sciences, chaotic systems of clouds, rather than the clods.”

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