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Berta Karlik

1904 - 1990

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Berta Karlik (24 January 1904 – 4 February 1990) was an Austrian physicist. She worked for the University of Vienna, eventually becoming the first female professor at the institution. While working with Ernst Foyn she published a paper on the radioactivity of seawater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Berta Karlik has received more than 21,009 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Berta Karlik is the 509th most popular physicist (up from 522nd in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from Austria (down from 630th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Berta Karlik ranks 509 out of 717Before her are Nicola Cabibbo, Rashid Sunyaev, Paul Davies, Leonid Mandelstam, John G. Trump, and Anatole Abragam. After her are Christian Mayer, Ira Sprague Bowen, Macedonio Melloni, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, August Beer, and Leopoldo Nobili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Berta Karlik ranks 171Before her are Vlado Perlemuter, Attilio Ferraris, Nancy Mitford, Xenophon Zolotas, Goffredo Petrassi, and Edgar G. Ulmer. After her are Lauri Virtanen, Armando Castellazzi, Richard Addinsell, Hertta Kuusinen, Abdullah Goran, and Srečko Kosovel. Among people deceased in 1990, Berta Karlik ranks 138Before her are José Napoleón Duarte, Otto Ambros, Zhang Qun, Rodolfo Orlandini, Terry-Thomas, and Rocky Graziano. After her are Alfred Sauvy, Sabicas, Štefan Čambal, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Herbert Wehner, and Peter Wessel Zapffe.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 644 out of 1,237Before her are Hilde Holger (1905), Ernst Toch (1887), Hans Hass (1919), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Karl Schranz (1938), and Richard Oswald (1880). After her are Gerhard Hanappi (1929), František Svoboda (1906), Franz Josef Popp (1886), Leopold Hofmann (1738), Maurice Loewy (1833), and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899).

Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 15Before her are Walter Kohn (1923), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Marietta Blau (1894), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), and Heinz von Foerster (1911). After her are Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Peter Zoller (1952), and Walter Munk (1917).