BIOLOGIST

Katherine Oppenheimer

1910 - 1972

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Katherine Vissering "Kitty" Oppenheimer (née Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America until leaving in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Katherine Oppenheimer is the 89th most popular biologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Germany (down from 349th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Katherine Oppenheimer ranks 89 out of 1,097. Before her are Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, August Weismann, and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. After her are Clair Cameron Patterson, Alfred Hershey, Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, and Aaron Ciechanover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Katherine Oppenheimer ranks 26. Before her are Walter Schellenberg, Paul Flory, Kurt Meyer, Gerda Taro, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Eric Berne. After her are Michel Aflaq, Helenio Herrera, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ronald Coase, Ludwig Stumpfegger, and Kim Yong-sik. Among people deceased in 1972, Katherine Oppenheimer ranks 25. Before her are Cristóbal Balenciaga, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Talal of Jordan, Andrei Tupolev, and Dino Buzzati. After her are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Maurice Chevalier, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Erhard Milch, Heinrich Lübke, and Erwin Bowien.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Katherine Oppenheimer ranks 611 out of 7,253. Before her are August Weismann (1834), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837), Gustav Heinemann (1899), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892). After her are Erich Hoepner (1886), Emile Berliner (1851), Horst Wessel (1907), Paul Breitner (1951), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Katherine Oppenheimer ranks 10. Before her are Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), and August Weismann (1834). After her are Ernst Mayr (1904), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771).

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