William Whitehead
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- Charge to the Poets
- Millionaire Living in Poverty
- Atys and Adrastus a Tale in the Manner of Dryden's Fables
- The danger of writing verse
- Dieppe 1942
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- 165
- Total plays
- 1,655
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,587x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,924x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,975x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,531x
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Quotes
- “Yes, I’m in love, I feel it now, And Caelia has undone me, And yet I’ll swear I can’t tell how The pleasing plague stole on me.”
- “Her voice, her touch, might give th’ alarm— ’Twas both perhaps, or neither, In short, ’twas that provoking charm Of Caelia altogether.”
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- date of birth
- 1715-02-12
- date of death
- 1785-04-14
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- William Whitehead
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- William Whitehead
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1715 births1785 deaths18th-century English dramatists and playwrights18th-century English male writers18th-century English poetsAlumni of Clare College, CambridgeBritish poets laureateEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish male poetsKnights Companion of the Order of the BathPeople educated at Winchester CollegeWriters from Cambridge