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Isabella Karle

1921 - 2017

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Isabella Karle (December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isabella Karle has received more than 59,138 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Isabella Karle is the 424th most popular chemist (up from 449th in 2019), the 4,881st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,029th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Isabella Karle ranks 424 out of 509Before her are Eric Betzig, Agnes Pockels, Anders Jahan Retzius, Donella Meadows, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Nikolay Zinin. After her are Edmond Frémy, Fausto Elhuyar, Henri Laborit, Edward Charles Howard, Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Johann Schweigger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Isabella Karle ranks 228Before her are Harry Schell, Samuel T. Cohen, Sune Andersson, Saul Zaentz, Alexander Kemurdzhian, and Bengt Danielsson. After her are Imre Kovács, John Agar, Simin Daneshvar, Jeanne Demessieux, Ken Adam, and Jack Kramer. Among people deceased in 2017, Isabella Karle ranks 244Before her are Gösta Ekman, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Mike Connors, Waldir Peres, József Tóth, and James Mancham. After her are Brad Harris, Velasio de Paolis, Sue Grafton, Octavio Lepage, Željko Perušić, and Leonid Bronevoy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Isabella Karle ranks 4,881 out of 18,182Before her are Big Bill Broonzy (1903), Marky Ramone (1952), Tyrese Gibson (1978), Lynn Anderson (1947), Shirley Jones (1934), and Minnie Riperton (1947). After her are Chandra Wilson (1969), Louise Bryant (1885), Irving Cummings (1888), Marty Balin (1942), Tommy Johnson (1896), and Taylor Lautner (1992).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Isabella Karle ranks 79Before her are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), John Tukey (1915), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Eric Betzig (1960), and Donella Meadows (1941). After her are Maclyn McCarty (1911), Caleb Bradham (1867), James B. Conant (1893), Michael Behe (1952), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), and Helen Murray Free (1923).