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Martin Karplus

1930 - Today

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Martin Karplus (German: [ˈmaʁˌtin ˈkaʁplus]; born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Karplus has received more than 251,369 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.

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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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