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Edith Farkas

1921 - 1993

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Edith Elizabeth Farkas (13 October 1921 – 3 February 1993) was a New Zealand Antarctic researcher, best known for being the first Hungarian woman and also the first New Zealand MetService female staff member to set foot in Antarctica. In addition she conducted world-leading ozone monitoring research for over 30 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Farkas is the 494th most popular physician (up from 594th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 573rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Edith Farkas ranks 494 out of 726Before her are Richard Bright, Maryna Poroshenko, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Antonio Scarpa, Łucja Frey, and Hulusi Behçet. After her are William Hunter, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, William Stewart Halsted, Soumya Swaminathan, Eugène Olivier, and Constantin von Economo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Edith Farkas ranks 239Before her are Kathleen Antonelli, Harry Schell, Joseph A. Walker, Simin Daneshvar, Ziya Bunyadov, and Samuel T. Cohen. After her are Ernesto Vidal, Bengt Danielsson, Alenush Terian, Saul Zaentz, Giuseppe Delfino, and Frédéric Dard. Among people deceased in 1993, Edith Farkas ranks 149Before her are David Koresh, Giuseppe Occhialini, Norman Vincent Peale, Elvira Popescu, Erich Leinsdorf, and Elmar Klos. After her are John Frost, Camargo Guarnieri, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Paul Mebus, Chishū Ryū, and Eugen Suchoň.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Edith Farkas ranks 427 out of 1,077Before her are Imre Komora (1940), Oszkár Gerde (1883), Anna Sipos (1908), József Csatári (1943), József Takács (1904), and László Berti (1875). After her are Tamás Mendelényi (1936), Dezső Földes (1880), László Lékai (1910), Imre Harangi (1913), Sándor Wekerle (1848), and George Friedman (1949).

Among PHYSICIANS In Hungary

Among physicians born in Hungary, Edith Farkas ranks 8Before her are Gabor Maté (1944), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Eva Klein (1925), Thomas Szasz (1920), and Moritz Kaposi (1837). After her are Emil Zuckerkandl (1849), Vilma Hugonnai (1847), Gabriele Possanner (1860), and Jenő Kamuti (1937).