Published “GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs” in Physical Review X — cited 2,857 times.
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Caspar Wessel
Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.
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science · Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer · mathematician · cartographer · geodesist · surveyor · also Caspar Wessel, Wessel
Born 8 June 1745 · Died 25 March 1818 · Q372017
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2019· 2 entries
Published “The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6” in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems — cited 2,746 times.
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2017· 3 entries
Published “Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 2,996 times.
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,306 times.
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Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger <sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,686 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Generic Mapping Tools: Improved Version Released” in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union — cited 3,491 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “New, improved version of generic mapping tools released” in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union — cited 5,911 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Published “Free software helps map and display data” in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union — cited 2,851 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Published “A method for the quantitative recovery of protein in dilute solution in the presence of detergents and lipids” in Analytical Biochemistry — cited 3,516 times.
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1897· 1 entry
And in English in 1999 as On the analytic representation of direction (eds
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1818· 1 entry
Died 1818-03-25.
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1815· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (1815).
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1778· 1 entry
Studied at University of Copenhagen (1763–1778).
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1763· 1 entry
Studied at Oslo Cathedral School (1757–1763).
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1745· 1 entry
Born 1745-06-08.
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