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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 238,248 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Karplus is the 257th most popular chemist (down from 225th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Austria (down from 318th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Karplus ranks 257 out of 509. Before him are Thomas Graham, Karl Barry Sharpless, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Kikunae Ikeda. After him are Carl Auer von Welsbach, Roger D. Kornberg, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Emil Abderhalden, and Alexander Butlerov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Martin Karplus ranks 99. Before him are Toru Takemitsu, Itamar Franco, Rod Taylor, Elza Soares, Barbara, and Ornette Coleman. After him are Sławomir Mrożek, Hilderaldo Bellini, Robert Loggia, Son Sen, José Sarney, and Colin Dexter.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Martin Karplus ranks 345 out of 1,237. Before him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680), Robert Adler (1913), Constanze Manziarly (1920), Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574), Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909), and René Spitz (1887). After him are Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870), Erich Kleiber (1890), Eva Schloss (1929), Otto Gross (1877), and André Gorz (1923).

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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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