CHEMIST

Mária Telkes

1900 - 1995

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Mária Telkes (December 12, 1900 – December 2, 1995) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.She moved to the United States in 1925 to work as a biophysicist. She became an American citizen in 1937 and started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939.During World War II, she developed a solar distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mária Telkes has received more than 1,206,162 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Mária Telkes is the 240th most popular chemist (down from 232nd in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 130th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mária Telkes by language

Over the past year Mária Telkes has had the most page views in the with 44,803 views, followed by Spanish (11,536), and Hungarian (7,962). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (689.71%), Eastern Punjabi (561.54%), and Turkish (140.30%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Mária Telkes ranks 240 out of 602. Before her are Robert Bruce Merrifield, Roger D. Kornberg, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Johan August Arfwedson, Henri Victor Regnault, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. After her are William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, Thomas Graham, Ryōji Noyori, William C. Campbell, and Paul Lauterbur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Mária Telkes ranks 57. Before her are Jean Negulesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Yves Tanguy, Pridi Banomyong, Evald Aav, and Werner Haase. After her are Rudolf Diels, Helen Hayes, Filipp Golikov, Ignazio Silone, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Franz Walter Stahlecker. Among people deceased in 1995, Mária Telkes ranks 58. Before her are Miklós Rózsa, Don Cherry, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Georges J. F. Köhler, Rose Kennedy, and Bob Ross. After her are Mehdi Bazargan, Lola Flores, Günter Guillaume, Jeremy Brett, Georges Canguilhem, and Ko Takamoro.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Mária Telkes ranks 138 out of 1,077. Before her are Max Nordau (1849), André Kertész (1894), Peter Delyan (1009), Imi Lichtenfeld (1910), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), and Georg Solti (1912). After her are Katalin Novák (1977), Arthur Nikisch (1855), Ferenc Deák (1803), Béla Tarr (1955), Michael Polanyi (1891), and György Sárosi (1912).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hungary

Among chemists born in Hungary, Mária Telkes ranks 5. Before her are George de Hevesy (1885), Katalin Karikó (1955), Avram Hershko (1937), and George Andrew Olah (1927). After her are Michael Polanyi (1891), and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904).

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