Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2016).
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Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance fo…
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Born 28 March 1930 · Q187822
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2016).
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Published “De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis” in Nature Protocols — cited 7,893 times.
Published “Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 19,446 times.
Published “Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent” in Journal of Statistical Software — cited 14,420 times.
Published “The Elements of Statistical Learning” in Springer Series in Statistics — cited 23,313 times.
Was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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Published “Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.” in The Annals of Statistics — cited 21,866 times.
Published “The Elements of Statistical Learning” in Springer Series in Statistics — cited 8,877 times.
Won President's Medal (2000).
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Published “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 8,938 times.
Published “The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis” in Cognitive Psychology — cited 11,874 times.
Published “Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue” in Nature — cited 10,102 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1990).
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Awarded Panofsky Prize (1989).
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Joined the physics faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Born 1930-03-28.
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