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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 21,995 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Berta Karlik is the 456th most popular physicist (up from 509th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 640th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Berta Karlik ranks 456 out of 851. Before her are Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Boris Podolsky, Erich Hückel, Alan Guth, Marietta Blau, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille. After her are William Watson, Jules Jamin, Rashid Sunyaev, Giovanni Aldini, Christian Mayer, and Eugen Goldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Berta Karlik ranks 131. Before her are Max Mallowan, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Joseph Valachi, Seán MacBride, Edvard Kocbek, and Helen Kane. After her are Edgar P. Jacobs, Attilio Ferraris, Lippo Hertzka, Antonin Magne, Cecil Beaton, and Chishū Ryū. Among people deceased in 1990, Berta Karlik ranks 102. Before her are Shigeo Shingo, J. C. R. Licklider, Gerald Bull, Hans Freudenthal, Paul Tortelier, and Stefano Casiraghi. After her are Xavier Cugat, Rashad Khalifa, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Wolfgang Schmieder, Martin Ritt, and Del Shannon.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 553 out of 1,424. Before her are Franz Klammer (1953), Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732), Josef Frank (1885), Marietta Blau (1894), Fred Sinowatz (1929), and Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871). After her are Josef Krips (1902), Ernst Fuchs (1930), Karl Koller (1929), Erich von Hornbostel (1877), Ulrich Seidl (1952), and Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1813).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 13. Before her are Anton Zeilinger (1945), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Marietta Blau (1894). After her are Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Julius Wess (1934), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), and Sulamith Goldhaber (1923).

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