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 326,069 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Carl Djerassi is the 347th most popular chemist (up from 365th in 2019), the 488th most popular biography from Austria (up from 555th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Djerassi ranks 347 out of 602. Before him are Charles Macintosh, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Roger Y. Tsien. After him are Charles Hatchett, Louis Camille Maillard, Julia Lermontova, Viktor Meyer, George Sarton, and Leo Sternbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Carl Djerassi ranks 130. Before him are Zlatko Čajkovski, Judith Kerr, Bert Kaempfert, Wes Montgomery, Elisabeth Becker, and Álvaro Mutis. After him are Arthur Hiller, Joseph Heller, Estelle Getty, Lucía Hiriart, Erroll Garner, and Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs. Among people deceased in 2015, Carl Djerassi ranks 114. Before him are Guy Ligier, Chea Sim, John Guillermin, Kirk Kerkorian, Robert Manzon, and E. L. Doctorow. After him are Wayne Dyer, Aldo Ciccolini, Joshua Fishman, Magali Noël, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, and Ignacio Zoco.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Carl Djerassi ranks 488 out of 1,424. Before him are Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Wolf Huber (1485), Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Pauline von Metternich (1836), and Karl Menger (1902). After him are Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690), Ernst Krenek (1900), Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), Richard Gerstl (1883), Freddy Quinn (1931), and Frederick III, Duke of Austria (1347).

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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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