1904 - 1990
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, Berta Karlik ranks 509 out of 717. Before 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.
1935 - 2010
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 503
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 504
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 505
1879 - 1944
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 506
1907 - 1985
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 507
1914 - 2011
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 508
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 509
1719 - 1783
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 510
1898 - 1973
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 511
1798 - 1854
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 512
1882 - 1963
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 513
1825 - 1863
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 514
1784 - 1835
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 515
Among people born in 1904, Berta Karlik ranks 171. Before 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 138. Before 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.
1904 - 2002
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 165
1904 - 1947
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 166
1904 - 1973
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 167
1904 - 2004
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 168
1904 - 2003
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 169
1904 - 1972
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 170
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 171
1904 - 1982
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 172
1904 - 1968
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 173
1904 - 1977
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 174
1904 - 1974
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 175
1904 - 1962
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 176
1904 - 1926
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 177
1925 - 1990
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 132
1901 - 1990
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 133
1889 - 1990
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 134
1905 - 1990
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 135
1911 - 1990
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 136
1919 - 1990
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 137
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 138
1898 - 1990
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 139
1912 - 1990
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 140
1908 - 1990
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 141
1906 - 1990
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 142
1906 - 1990
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 143
1899 - 1990
HPI: 50.03
Rank: 144
Among people born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 644 out of 1,237. Before 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).
1905 - 2001
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 638
1887 - 1964
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 639
1919 - 2013
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 640
1802 - 1884
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 641
1938 - Present
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 642
1880 - 1963
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 643
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 644
1929 - 1980
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 645
1906 - 1948
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 646
1886 - 1954
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 647
1738 - 1793
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 648
1833 - 1907
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 649
1899 - 1956
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 650
Among physicists born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 15. Before 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).
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 9
1908 - 2002
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 10
1894 - 1970
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 12
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 13
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 15
1934 - 2007
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 16
1923 - 1965
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 17
1952 - Present
HPI: 43.49
Rank: 18
1917 - 2019
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 19