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Maria Reiche

1903 - 1998

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Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann (15 May 1903 – 8 June 1998) was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work. She was widely recognized as the curator of the lines and lived nearby to protect them. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Reiche is the 208th most popular mathematician (up from 224th in 2019), the 1,186th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,408th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maria Reiche ranks 208 out of 1,004. Before her are Tatyana Afanasyeva, Conon of Samos, Victor D'Hondt, André Weil, Ibn Sahl, and Arthur Cayley. After her are Henry Briggs, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Paul Guldin, Robert Grosseteste, Piet Hein, and Peter Tait.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Maria Reiche ranks 69. Before her are Vincente Minnelli, Kim Chaek, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, John Vincent Atanasoff, Vladimir Bartol, and Irving Stone. After her are Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Louis Leakey, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Misao Tamai, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Johannes Heesters. Among people deceased in 1998, Maria Reiche ranks 43. Before her are Agostino Casaroli, Alan J. Pakula, Linda McCartney, Lúcio Costa, André Weil, and Martin Rodbell. After her are Antonio Quarracino, Bob Kane, Hans von Ohain, Zlatko Čajkovski, Lloyd Bridges, and David McClelland.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maria Reiche ranks 1,186 out of 7,253. Before her are Prince George William of Hanover (1915), Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752), Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670), John, Elector of Saxony (1468), and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775). After her are Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1443), Horst Tappert (1923), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), and Conrad II of Italy (1074).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Maria Reiche ranks 24. Before her are Hermann Weyl (1885), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Johannes Trithemius (1462), and Ernst Schröder (1841). After her are Thomas Abbt (1738), Robert Aumann (1930), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), and Eduard Heine (1821).

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