1875 - 1968
Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Hallett Dale has received more than 194,138 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Henry Hallett Dale is the 105th most popular chemist (up from 111th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 640th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Chemist.
Henry Hallett Dale is most famous for his work in bacteriology and immunology. He discovered that diphtheria is caused by a bacterium, and he developed a vaccine for it.
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Among chemists, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 105 out of 509. Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Gerhard Ertl, Yves Chauvin, Willard Libby, James B. Sumner, and John Newlands. After him are Robert Robinson, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Antoni Grabowski, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Paul J. Crutzen.
1879 - 1947
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 99
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 100
1930 - 2015
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 101
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 102
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 103
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 104
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 105
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 106
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 107
1857 - 1921
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 108
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 109
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 110
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 111
Among people born in 1875, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 21. Before him are Marie of Romania, Vallabhbhai Patel, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gilbert N. Lewis, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, and Fritz Kreisler. After him are Paul Landowski, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Machado, John Buchan, D. W. Griffith, and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1968, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 24. Before him are Erwin Panofsky, Jim Clark, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Salvatore Quasimodo, Corneille Heymans, and Kees van Dongen. After him are Neal Cassady, Pitirim Sorokin, Kirill Meretskov, José Nasazzi, Giovanni Messe, and Alexandre Kojève.
1875 - 1938
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 15
1875 - 1950
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 16
1875 - 1950
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 17
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 18
1875 - 1911
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 19
1875 - 1962
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 20
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 21
1875 - 1961
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 22
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 23
1875 - 1939
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 24
1875 - 1940
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 25
1875 - 1948
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 26
1875 - 1960
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 27
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 18
1936 - 1968
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 19
1889 - 1968
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 20
1901 - 1968
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 21
1892 - 1968
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 22
1877 - 1968
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 23
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 24
1926 - 1968
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 25
1889 - 1968
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 26
1897 - 1968
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 27
1901 - 1968
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 28
1883 - 1968
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 29
1902 - 1968
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 30
Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 553 out of 7,765. Before him are Alexander Pope (1688), John Smith (1580), Alice Liddell (1852), Alfred Molina (1953), John Newlands (1837), and Gordon Banks (1937). After him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Robert Robinson (1886), Mike Hawthorn (1929), Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964).
1688 - 1744
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 547
1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 548
1852 - 1934
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 549
1953 - Present
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 550
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 551
1937 - 2019
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 552
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 553
1821 - 1910
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 554
1415 - 1495
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 555
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 556
1929 - 1959
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 557
1532 - 1588
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 558
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 559
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Henry Hallett Dale ranks 11. Before him are Frederick Soddy (1877), William Crookes (1832), Francis William Aston (1877), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Norman Haworth (1883), and John Newlands (1837). After him are Robert Robinson (1886), James Dewar (1842), John Macleod (1876), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), and Harry Kroto (1939).
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 13
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 14
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 15
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 16
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 17