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Martin Karplus

1930 - 2024

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Martin Karplus (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈkaʁplʊs]; March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was also the director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Karplus has received more than 257,030 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Martin Karplus is the 265th most popular chemist (down from 257th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Austria (up from 345th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Karplus ranks 265 out of 602. Before him are Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. After him are Locusta, Joachim Sauer, Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, Wilfrid Voynich, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Martin Karplus ranks 100. Before him are Edgar Mitchell, Hilderaldo Bellini, Frank Drake, Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, and Mauro Ramos. After him are José Sarney, John Frankenheimer, Rod Taylor, Sławomir Mrożek, Colin Dexter, and Paul Veyne. Among people deceased in 2024, Martin Karplus ranks 82. Before him are Issa Hayatou, Yael Dayan, Salvatore Schillaci, Manmohan Singh, John Mayall, and Micheline Presle. After him are Helena Rojo, Artur Jorge, Bob Newhart, Sergio Sebastiani, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and Maryse Condé.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Martin Karplus ranks 325 out of 1,424. Before him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Hans Makart (1840), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Robert Adler (1913), and Camillo Sitte (1843). After him are Raoul Hausmann (1886), Peter Fendi (1796), Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (1628), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), and Shlomo Sand (1946).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Martin Karplus ranks 5. Before him are Fritz Pregl (1869), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Richard Kuhn (1900), and Max Perutz (1914). After him are Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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