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Martin Karplus

1930 to 2024 10 documented presences 10 places

Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for Martin Karplus across 10 places, from 1930 to 2024. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Martin Karplus (March 15, 1930 – December 28, 2024) was an Austrian and American theoretical chemist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Martin Karplus was documented, and when

15 March 1930exact date
Viennaattested “Martin Karplus was born on March 15, 1930, in Vienna, Austria.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1951year
California Institute of Technologyattested “After earning an AB degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 1951, Karplus pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1951year
Harvard Collegeattested “After earning an AB degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 1951, Karplus pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1951year
Californiaattested “After earning an AB degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 1951, Karplus pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1955 to 1966period
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaignattested “Karplus taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1955–60) and then Columbia University (1960–65) before moving to join the Chemistry Department faculty at Harvard in 1966.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1955 to 1966period
Harvardattested “Karplus taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1955–60) and then Columbia University (1960–65) before moving to join the Chemistry Department faculty at Harvard in 1966.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1969 to 1970period
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biologyattested “From 1969 to 1970, Karplus visited the Structural Studies Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1992 to 1996period
Louis Pasteur Universityattested “He was a professor at the Louis Pasteur University in 1996 where he established a research group in Strasbourg, France, after two sabbatical visits between 1992 and 1995 in the NMR laboratory of Jean-François Lefèvre.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
28 December 2024exact date
Cambridge, Massachusettsattested “He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 28, 2024, at the age of 94.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
28 December 2024exact date
Cambridgeattested “He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 28, 2024, at the age of 94.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus

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Places Martin Karplus is documented in

California1 presence · 1951California Institute of Technology1 presence · 1951Cambridge1 presence · 2024Cambridge, Massachusetts1 presence · 2024Harvard1 presence · 1955Harvard College1 presence · 1951University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign1 presence · 1955Vienna1 presence · 1930
Louis Pasteur University1 presence · 1992
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology1 presence · 1969

Other places tied to Martin Karplus in the record

In each of these, a source puts Martin Karplus and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Martin Karplus was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

March 1938month
First Austrian Republicmentioned “He was a child when his family fled from the Nazi-occupation in Austria a few days after the Anschluss in March 1938, spending several months in Zürich, Switzerland and La Baule, France before immigrating to the United States.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
March 1938month
United Statesmentioned “He was a child when his family fled from the Nazi-occupation in Austria a few days after the Anschluss in March 1938, spending several months in Zürich, Switzerland and La Baule, France before immigrating to the United States.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1953year
University of Oxfordmentioned “According to Pauling, Karplus "was [his] most brilliant student." He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (1953–55) where he worked with Charles Coulson.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1970year
Harvardmentioned “In 1970 postdoctoral fellow Arieh Warshel joined Karplus at Harvard.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
1992 to 1996period
Strasbourgmentioned “He was a professor at the Louis Pasteur University in 1996 where he established a research group in Strasbourg, France, after two sabbatical visits between 1992 and 1995 in the NMR laboratory of Jean-François Lefèvre.” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus
2013year
Houstonmentioned “States (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) * Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California) (co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Karplus and Michael Levitt (Stanford)) * Eugene Shakhnov…” source: Wikipedia: Martin Karplus

Documented at the same place, the same year

Alan WattsCalifornia · 1951Franz Joseph II, Prince of LiechtensteinVienna · 1930Denis de RougemontVienna · 1930Octavio PazUniversity of Cambridge · 1969Ivar GiaeverUniversity of Cambridge · 1969John McCarthy (computer scientist)Caltech · 1951Moshe ArensCaltech · 1951Martin Luther King Jr.Boston · 1951J. L. AustinBoston · 1951Eric KandelBoston · 1951Serge KoussevitzkyBoston · 1951Viktor FranklHarvard University · 1955

Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.

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Sources

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