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Martin Karplus

1930 - 2024

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Martin Karplus (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈkaʁplʊs]; March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He was the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He was also the director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. Karplus received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Karplus is the 278th most popular chemist (down from 265th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Austria (up from 325th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Chemist. Learn more about Martin Karplus's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Karplus ranks 278 out of 602. Before him are Rudolph A. Marcus, Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, Akira Yoshino, and Paul Ulrich Villard. After him are Thomas Graham, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, André-Louis Debierne, Ascanio Sobrero, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Martin Karplus ranks 97. Before him are Pierre Bergé, Owen Garriott, José Sarney, Edgar Mitchell, Michal Kováč, and Mario Adorf. After him are Choe Yong-rim, Hilderaldo Bellini, Mauro Ramos, Pavel Popovich, Ben Gazzara, and Robert Loggia. Among people deceased in 2024, Martin Karplus ranks 89. Before him are Iris Apfel, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Geneviève Grad, Silvia Pinal, Richard Serra, and Issa Hayatou. After him are Richard S. Hamilton, Ratan Tata, Tony Todd, Tim Johnson, Philippe de Gaulle, and John Mayall.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Martin Karplus ranks 312 out of 1,424. Before him are Hans Makart (1840), Karl Lueger (1844), Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (1876), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759), Kunigunde of Austria (1465), and Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432). After him are Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), Franz Böhme (1885), Franz König (1905), Peter Altenberg (1859), Guido von List (1848), and Hans Krankl (1953).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Martin Karplus ranks 5. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Fritz Pregl (1869), Richard Kuhn (1900), and Max Perutz (1914). After him are Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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