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Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts". He taught for more than 40 years at the Roman College, where he set…
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science · German Jesuit scholar and polymath (1602–1680) · linguist · mathematician · Egyptologist · musicologist · music theorist · polymath · inventor · Catholic priest · astronomer · biologist · also Athanasius Kircher, Athanasius Kircher SJ, Athanasius Kircher, S.J., A. Kircher, Kircher, Pere Kircher
Born 2 May 1602 · Died 27 November 1680 · Q76738
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2026· 2 entries
Bayerischer Rundfunk: Radiowissen Athanasius Kircher - Der letzte Mann, der alles wusste
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2025· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Athanasius Kircher
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2024· 2 entries
spektrum.de: Hemmer und Meßner erzählen vom Universalgelehrten Athanasius Kircher
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spektrum.de: Athanasius Kircher: Über einen, der alles wusste
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2023· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Rhetorik und Wissenspoetik: Studien zu Texten von Athanasius Kircher bis Miljenko Jergovic
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2018· 1 entry
Published “CADD: predicting the deleteriousness of variants throughout the human genome” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 3,541 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Cell-free DNA Comprises an In Vivo Nucleosome Footprint that Informs Its Tissues-Of-Origin” in Cell — cited 1,394 times.
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2015· 1 entry
DiePresse: Die Gedankenwelt des Athanasius Kircher
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2014· 1 entry
Published “A general framework for estimating the relative pathogenicity of human genetic variants” in Nature Genetics — cited 5,854 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains” in Nature — cited 2,079 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual” in Science — cited 1,844 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2011· 2 entries
Published “The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs” in Nature — cited 1,191 times.
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Published “Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 1,056 times.
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2010· 3 entries
Published “Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia” in Nature — cited 1,566 times.
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Published “Illumina Sequencing Library Preparation for Highly Multiplexed Target Capture and Sequencing” in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols — cited 2,032 times.
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Published “A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome” in Science — cited 3,692 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC” in Journal of Instrumentation — cited 1,691 times.
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2002· 1 entry
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Athanasius Kircher, Dude of Wonders
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1870· 1 entry
Though scepticism as to the authenticity of the story and of the origin of the manuscript itself exists
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1680· 1 entry
Died 1680-11-27.
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1637· 1 entry
Career landmark: royal confessor (1637–1638).
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1602· 1 entry
Born 1602-05-02.
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