William Jones
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 1822-04-22
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Virgils Eclogues
- The true friend, or, A bill of exchange, expressed in a sermon preached at White-hall
- An answer to Pope Vrban his inurbanity
- Informations
- Strange newes out of divers countries never discovered till of late, by a strange pilgrime in those parts
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 176
- Total plays
- 682
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an English philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. He was also the founder of the Asiatic Society. Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster; his father (also named William Jones) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Jone
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,493x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,862x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,972x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,634x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
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Key dates
- Born
- 8 October 1753
- Died
- 22 April 1822
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newport
- Place of death
- Providence
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Governor of Rhode Island
- Political party
- Federalist Party