CHEMIST

Yellapragada Subbarow

1895 - 1948

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Yellapragada Subbarow (12 January 1895 – 8 August 1948) was an Indian American biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as an energy source in the cell, developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer and led the department at Lederle laboratories in which Benjamin Minge Duggar discovered chlortetracycline in 1945. A student of Madras Medical College, his elder brother and younger brother both died due to tropical sprue in the span of eight days. He subsequently discovered folic acid as a cure for tropical sprue. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yellapragada Subbarow has received more than 539,962 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yellapragada Subbarow is the 584th most popular chemist (down from 520th in 2019), the 917th most popular biography from India (down from 704th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 584 out of 602. Before him are F. Albert Cotton, Jacqueline Barton, Bonnie Bassler, Percy Lavon Julian, Benjamin Silliman, and Peter Jacob Hjelm. After him are Martyn Poliakoff, John George Children, Richard Lerner, Esther M. Conwell, Omar M. Yaghi, and Ruth R. Benerito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 302. Before him are Katsutoshi Naito, Alice Lake, Alexander Aitken, Adam Papée, Louise Fazenda, and William Boyd. After him are Sylvia Lance Harper, Wanda Hawley, William Gilmore, Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Richard Cushing, and Beattie Ramsay. Among people deceased in 1948, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 191. Before him are Elissa Landi, Samuel S. Hinds, Joseph Wedderburn, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Mary Nolan, and Susan Glaspell. After him are King Baggot, Warren William, Gertrude Atherton, Philippa Fawcett, Sophia Duleep Singh, and Montagu Toller.

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In India

Among people born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 917 out of 1,861. Before him are Sudha Chandran (1965), Kanan Devi (1916), Dorabji Tata (1859), Nandini Satpathy (1931), Uddhav Thackeray (1960), and Avinash Dixit (1944). After him are Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi (1920), MS Dhoni (1981), V. K. Sasikala (1954), B. Saroja Devi (1938), Prem Nazir (1927), and Karan Johar (1972).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 5. Before him are Kamala Sohonie (1912), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Asima Chatterjee (1917), and C. N. R. Rao (1934). After him are Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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