BIOLOGIST

Charlotte Auerbach

1899 - 1994

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Charlotte "Lotte" Auerbach FRS FRSE (14 May 1899 – 17 March 1994) was a German geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. She wrote 91 scientific papers, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of London. In 1976, she was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Auerbach is the 818th most popular biologist (down from 776th in 2019), the 4,520th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,745th in 2019) and the 169th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 818 out of 1,097. Before her are João Barbosa Rodrigues, Herbert Giles, Mary-Claire King, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Heinrich Göppert, and André Thouin. After her are Gustav Lindau, Robert Trivers, John Abbot, Albrecht Thaer, Akira Miyawaki, and Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz.

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Among people born in 1899, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 226. Before her are Juan Trippe, Weegee, Wen Yiduo, Giuseppe Amato, György Piller, and Eva Le Gallienne. After her are Eugeniusz Bodo, Kamala Nehru, Hugo Benioff, Sherm Clark, Hoagy Carmichael, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Among people deceased in 1994, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 233. Before her are Gozo Shioda, Devika Rani, Bruno Pezzey, Luis Vargas Peña, Abdullah al-Sallal, and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón. After her are David Dunlap, Enrico Maria Salerno, William Wilson Morgan, Ladislav Fuks, Koto Matsudaira, and Maureen Starkey Tigrett.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 4,523 out of 7,253. Before her are Friedrich Kittler (1943), Theodor Hoffmann (1935), Eduard Sievers (1850), Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Frank Beyer (1932), and Eberhard Jäckel (1929). After her are Ludwig Mond (1839), Gustav Lindau (1866), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Jeri Ryan (1968), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), and Felix Dahn (1834).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Charlotte Auerbach ranks 169. Before her are Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Eduard von Martens (1831), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), Ole Borch (1626), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), and Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782). After her are Gustav Lindau (1866), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), Ernst Ahl (1898), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), and Hermann Harms (1870).

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