1923 - 2015
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, 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.
1864 - 1943
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 359
1914 - 1996
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 360
1887 - 1975
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 361
1952 - Present
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 362
1912 - 1998
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 363
1878 - 1936
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 364
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 365
1860 - 1934
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 366
1877 - 1947
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 367
1851 - 1935
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 368
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 369
1874 - 1949
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 370
1787 - 1853
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 371
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.
1923 - 2016
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 151
1923 - 2011
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 152
1923 - 2008
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 153
1923 - 1977
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 154
1923 - 2020
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 155
1923 - 2007
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 156
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 157
1923 - 2006
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 158
1923 - 1977
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 159
1923 - 1994
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 160
1923 - 2010
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 161
1923 - 2002
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 162
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 163
1931 - 2015
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 133
1954 - 2015
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 134
1937 - 2015
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 135
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 136
1947 - 2015
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 137
1931 - 2015
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 138
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 139
1926 - 2015
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 140
1934 - 2015
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 141
1940 - 2015
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 142
1941 - 2015
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 143
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 144
1948 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 145
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).
1859 - 1932
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 551
1899 - 1961
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 552
1842 - 1899
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 553
1919 - 2000
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 554
1582 - 1620
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 555
1896 - 1966
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 556
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 557
1885 - 1967
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 558
1882 - 1946
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 559
1875 - 1955
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 560
1778 - 1858
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 561
1953 - Present
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 562
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 563
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).
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 2
1900 - 1967
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 3
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 4
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
1858 - 1929
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 6
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 7
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 8
1863 - 1914
HPI: 40.24
Rank: 9