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Vaughan Jones
Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990.
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science · New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist · mathematician · university teacher · also Vaughan Jones, Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Vaughan F. R. Jones, Sir Vaughan Jones, Jones
Born 31 December 1952 · Died 6 September 2020 · Q369638
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2020· 4 entries
Died 2020-09-06.
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Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,839 times.
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Jones died on 6 September 2020 at age 67 from health complications resulting from a severe ear infection.
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Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,436 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2018).
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Enrichr: a comprehensive gene set enrichment analysis web server 2016 update” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 10,501 times.
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,744 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,857 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2009).
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2006· 1 entry
Published “The plant immune system” in Nature — cited 11,716 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas” in International Journal of Climatology — cited 16,668 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,355 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts” in Science — cited 12,840 times.
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science (1992).
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Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1992).
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1991).
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Won Rutherford Medal (1991).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Auckland (1991).
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Published “Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models” in Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography — cited 10,490 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Won Fields medal (1990).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1986).
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-12-31.
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