Published “Assessing nature's contributions to people” in Science — cited 2,460 times.
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Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. Alongside his doctoral s…
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science · American mathematician and computer scientist (1903–1995) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · computer scientist · logician · also Alonzo Church, Church
Born 14 June 1903 · Died 11 August 1995 · Q92741
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2016· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,891 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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By the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science L
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2014· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i>2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 5,043 times.
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2013· 2 entries
Published “RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas9” in Science — cited 8,512 times.
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Published “ClinVar: public archive of relationships among sequence variation and human phenotype” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 3,365 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain” in Neuron — cited 4,036 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Consensus Statement: Chromosomal Microarray Is a First-Tier Clinical Diagnostic Test for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities or Congenital Anomalies” in The American Journal of Human Genetics — cited 2,324 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation.” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology — cited 2,283 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-08-11.
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1993· 1 entry
Published “Reducing Mortality from Colorectal Cancer by Screening for Fecal Occult Blood” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,449 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Published “Genomic sequencing.” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 5,363 times.
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1969· 1 entry
Princeton University in 1985, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1990 in connection with an international symposium in his honor organized by John Corcoran
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1966· 1 entry
To the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 1967, to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978
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1929· 1 entry
Studied at University of Amsterdam (1929–1929).
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1928· 2 entries
Studied at University of Göttingen (1928–1928).
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Studied at Harvard University (1927–1928).
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1920–1927).
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1924· 1 entry
And graduated the same year with a degree in mathematics
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1920· 1 entry
Church attended Princeton University, where he was an exceptional student
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-06-14.
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