“s death, no one was able to replicate his device, much like his own. The mechanical clockworks for Su Song”
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Su Song
Su Song, courtesy name Zirong, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Song dynasty (960–1279). He excelled in numerous fields including but not limited to mathematics, astronomy, cartography, geography, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, poetry, and statesmanship.
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science · Polymath (1020–1101) · cartographer · civil engineer · astronomer · diplomat · inventor · architect · metallurgist · mathematician · astrologer · pharmacist · also Su Song, Zi Rong, Zirong, Song
Born 1 January 1020 · Died 1 January 1101 · Q1265657
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Published “A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China” in Nature — cited 9,950 times.
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Published “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 22,169 times.
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Published “Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study” in The Lancet — cited 21,459 times.
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Published “Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding” in The Lancet — cited 8,822 times.
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,058 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,853 times.
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1956· 1 entry
John Christiansen reconstructed a model of Su Song's clocktower in a famous drawing, which garnered attention in the West towards 11th-century Chinese engineering
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Died 1101-01-01.
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Born 1020-01-01.
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