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CHEMIST

Carl Djerassi

1923 - 2015

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Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Djerassi has received more than 310,027 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Carl Djerassi is the 365th most popular chemist (down from 364th in 2019), the 557th most popular biography from Austria (down from 550th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Djerassi ranks 365 out of 509. Before him are George Washington Carver, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Kazimierz Fajans, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Kamala Sohonie, and Louis Camille Maillard. After him are Paul Ulrich Villard, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Otto Schott, Jennifer Doudna, André-Louis Debierne, and Mathieu Orfila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Carl Djerassi ranks 157. Before him are Marc Riboud, Loriot, Joseph Weizenbaum, Jean Hagen, Rhonda Fleming, and Holden Roberto. After him are Ferenc Szusza, Erroll Garner, Sam Francis, Cesare Siepi, Inge Morath, and Ellsworth Kelly. Among people deceased in 2015, Carl Djerassi ranks 139. Before him are E. L. Doctorow, Phil Taylor, André Glucksmann, Jørgen Ingmann, Halldór Ásgrímsson, and Franco Interlenghi. After him are Joshua Fishman, Michael Graves, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Harald Nielsen, Ellsworth Kelly, and Chris Squire.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Carl Djerassi ranks 557 out of 1,237. Before him are Christian von Ehrenfels (1859), Gustav Ucicky (1899), Carl Millöcker (1842), Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1582), and Heimito von Doderer (1896). After him are Josef Frank (1885), Edmund Glaise-Horstenau (1882), Theodor Innitzer (1875), Sigismund von Neukomm (1778), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), and Peter Habeler (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Carl Djerassi ranks 8. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), and Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740). After him are Ida Freund (1863).

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