Published “Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program” in Nature — cited 2,100 times.
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Kōbō Abe
Kimifusa Abe , known by his pen name Kōbō Abe , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. He died aged 68 of heart failure in…
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entertainment · Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor · writer · novelist · playwright · photographer · screenwriter · science fiction writer · poet · film director · prose writer · also Kōbō Abe, Kimifusa Abe, Kobo Abe, Koubou Abe, Abe
Born 7 March 1924 · Died 22 January 1993 · Q186273
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Published “Hydrogen energy, economy and storage: Review and recommendation” in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy — cited 3,175 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning” in Nature Neuroscience — cited 5,385 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,684 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,422 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Review: current international research into cellulose nanofibres and nanocomposites” in Journal of Materials Science — cited 2,146 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Two Transcription Factors, DREB1 and DREB2, with an EREBP/AP2 DNA Binding Domain Separate Two Cellular Signal Transduction Pathways in Drought- and Low-Temperature-Responsive Gene Expression, Respectively, in Arabidopsis” in The Plant Cell — cited 2,492 times.
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1993· 3 entries
Died 1993-01-22.
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“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe.”
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“A liberdade não consiste só em seguir a sua própria vontade, mas às vezes também em fugir dela.”
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1977· 1 entry
Abe was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1973· 1 entry
Specifically for Abe, though many other artists were given the chance to use it
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Art Encouragement Prizes (1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Founded the Abe Studio, an acting studio in Tokyo
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1970· 1 entry
Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 became the first Japanese science fiction novel to appear in English, in a translation by American scholar E
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1969· 1 entry
A production of The Man Who Turned Into A Stick
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Tanizaki Prize (1967).
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In the form of a statement published by himself, Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, and Jun Ishikawa, protesting the treatment of writers, artists, and intellectuals in Communist China
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Yomiuri Prize (1963).
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1962· 2 entries
For The Woman in the Dunes, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the play Friends
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That Abe won widespread international acclaim
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1960· 1 entry
Participated in the Anpo Protests against revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty as part of the pan-ideological Young Japan Society
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Kishida Theatre Award (1958).
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1951· 3 entries
Awarded Akutagawa Prize for Kabe (1951).
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Abe began to feel the constraints of the Communist Party's rules and regulations alongside doubts about what meaningful artistic works could be created in the genre of "socialist realism
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His ability to continue publishing was confirmed
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1948· 1 entry
With a medical degree, once joking that he was allowed to graduate only on the condition that he would not practice
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1947· 1 entry
With Mumei-shishū ("Poems of an unknown poet"), which he paid for himself, and as a novelist the following year with Owarishi michi no shirube ni ("The Road Sign at the End of the Street"), which established his reputati
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1945· 1 entry
Abe married Machi Yamada, an artist and stage director, and the couple saw successes within their fields in similar time frames
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1943· 1 entry
Partially out of respect for his father, but also because "[t]hose students who specialized in medicine were exempted from becoming soldiers
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1924· 2 entries
In Kita, Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Mukden (now Shenyang) in Manchuria
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Born 1924-03-07.
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