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Berta Karlik

1904 - 1990

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Berta Karlik (24 January 1904 – 4 February 1990) was an Austrian physicist. She worked for the University of Vienna, eventually becoming the first female professor at the institution. While working with Ernst Foyn, she published a paper on the radioactivity of seawater. She discovered that the chemical element 85 astatine is a product of natural decay processes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Berta Karlik is the 465th most popular physicist (down from 457th in 2019), the 561st most popular biography from Austria (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Berta Karlik ranks 465 out of 851. Before her are Johanna Budwig, Hendrik Casimir, Clarence Zener, Jürgen Ehlers, Carlo Matteucci, and Walter Heitler. After her are Rashid Sunyaev, Gabriele Veneziano, Sameera Moussa, Mildred Dresselhaus, John Canton, and John Houghton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Berta Karlik ranks 131. Before her are Franz Kutschera, Aparicio Méndez, Max Mallowan, Juan José Arévalo, Seán MacBride, and Walter Heitler. After her are Alexandrina of Balazar, Frederick Ashton, Edgar P. Jacobs, Vilis Lācis, Delmer Daves, and Cecil Beaton. Among people deceased in 1990, Berta Karlik ranks 110. Before her are Mariano Rumor, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Juan José Arévalo, Tom Fogerty, Hayedeh, and Xavier Cugat. After her are Andrei Kirilenko, Paul Tortelier, Naoto Tajima, Shigeo Shingo, J. C. R. Licklider, and José Napoleón Duarte.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 561 out of 1,424. Before her are Hermann Bondi (1919), Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Karl Rappan (1905), and Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953). After her are Gottfried Helnwein (1948), Raul Hilberg (1926), Friedrich Welwitsch (1806), Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200), Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765), and Fritz Machlup (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Berta Karlik ranks 12. Before her are Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), and Fritjof Capra (1939). After her are Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Marietta Blau (1894), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), and Julius Wess (1934).

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