BIOLOGIST

Charlotte Auerbach

1899 - 1994

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Charlotte "Lotte" Auerbach FRS FRSE (14 May 1899 – 17 March 1994) was a German geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlotte Auerbach has received more than 57,618 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charlotte Auerbach is the 776th most popular biologist (down from 657th in 2019), the 4,744th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,057th in 2019) and the 166th most popular German Biologist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 776 out of 1,097. Before her are Giacomo Bresadola, Jules Verreaux, William Thomas Blanford, Alfred G. Knudson, Hipólito Ruiz López, and Nathaniel Lord Britton. After her are Joseph Banks Rhine, Louisa Bolus, Peter Duesberg, Paul R. Ehrlich, Henry Baker, and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 237. Before her are Chief Dan George, Byron Haskin, Curtis Bernhardt, Frances Yates, Harald Tammer, and Yervand Kochar. After her are James Smith McDonnell, Pat O'Brien, Juan Arremón, Hans Jacob Nielsen, John Qualen, and Ian Keith. Among people deceased in 1994, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 256. Before her are Rosa Chacel, Zoltán Beke, Delio Rodríguez, Hans Jakob, Lilly Scholz, and Jan Dobraczyński. After her are Marcel Mouloudji, Norberto Menéndez, Cheb Hasni, Medea Japaridze, Ljubomir Lovrić, and Jerry Rubin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 4,744 out of 7,253. Before her are Gustav Schuft (1878), Angelique Kerber (1988), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Werner Peters (1918), Stefan Raab (1966), and Martina Hellmann (1960). After her are Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854), Hans Cieslarczyk (1937), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Michael May (1934), Haim Katz (1947), and Gustav Rose (1798).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 166. Before her are Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), August W. Eichler (1839), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), and Karl Moritz Schumann (1851). After her are Peter Duesberg (1936), Ernst Ahl (1898), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), and Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835).

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