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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 53,510 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Auerbach is the 658th most popular biologist (up from 738th in 2019), the 4,070th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,921st in 2019) and the 129th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 658 out of 841Before her are Nathaniel Lord Britton, Lucas Alamán, Joseph Rock, Mary Elizabeth Barber, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau. After her are Théodore Monod, Alexei Fedchenko, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Johan Andreas Murray, Paul Gervais, and Joseph Leidy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 201Before her are Juan Arremón, Mikhail Zharov, Szolem Mandelbrojt, Armas Toivonen, Finn Ronne, and Pat O'Brien. After her are Curtis Bernhardt, Ralf Törngren, Harold Osborn, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frances Yates. Among people deceased in 1994, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 220Before her are Maureen Starkey Tigrett, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Hermann Josef Abs, Jay Miner, Gilbert Roland, and Gennady Voronov. After her are William Higinbotham, Alain Daniélou, Alfredo Pérez, Roger Bocquet, Willem Jacob Luyten, and József Háda.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 4,070 out of 6,142Before her are Dana Wynter (1931), Mathieu Carrière (1950), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673). After her are Jens Weißflog (1964), Adolf Brand (1874), Peter Härtling (1933), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), Curtis Bernhardt (1899), and Joseph Höffner (1906).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 129Before her are Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Ole Borch (1626), Rolf Singer (1906), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798). After her are Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Ernst Hartert (1859), Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), and Carl Chun (1852).