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John Vane

1927 - 2004

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Sir John Robert Vane (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Vane has received more than 133,622 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). John Vane is the 199th most popular chemist (down from 172nd in 2019), the 803rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 799th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Chemist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.65

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Vane ranks 199 out of 602. Before him are Alan MacDiarmid, Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Max Perutz. After him are Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Mario J. Molina, Nikolay Semyonov, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, John Vane ranks 58. Before him are Leszek Kołakowski, Mary Higgins Clark, Juan Almeida Bosque, Alan MacDiarmid, Robert Noyce, and Enzo Bearzot. After him are Marvin Minsky, Phil Hill, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Lois Maxwell, Romano Mussolini, and Thomas Luckmann. Among people deceased in 2004, John Vane ranks 38. Before him are Julius Axelrod, Thomas Klestil, Jerry Goldsmith, Edward B. Lewis, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and Andriyan Nikolayev. After him are Theo van Gogh, Charles Sweeney, Godfrey Hounsfield, Robert Merle, Gérard Debreu, and Ko Yong-hui.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Vane ranks 803 out of 8,785. Before him are Sawney Bean (1600), Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), and David Harvey (1935). After him are George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), John Langdon Down (1828), Adam Ferguson (1723), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), and David Cameron (1966).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Vane ranks 25. Before him are George Porter (1920), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Harry Kroto (1939), Alexander R. Todd (1907), John Macleod (1876), and John E. Walker (1941). After him are Derek Barton (1918), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Herbert C. Brown (1912), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), and Thomas Graham (1805).

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