1895 - 1948
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 8 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 505,630 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yellapragada Subbarow is the 521st most popular chemist (down from 501st in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from India (down from 700th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Chemist.
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Among chemists, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 521 out of 509. Before him are Peter Jacob Hjelm, Mildred Cohn, Jürgen Hennig, Sabir Yunusov, Bruce Ames, and Hugo Erdmann. After him are F. Albert Cotton, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Mary L. Good, Gilbert Stork, Darleane C. Hoffman, and John George Children.
1746 - 1813
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 515
1913 - 2009
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 516
1951 - Present
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 517
1909 - 1995
HPI: 42.44
Rank: 518
1928 - Present
HPI: 41.88
Rank: 519
1862 - 1910
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 520
1895 - 1948
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 521
1930 - 2007
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 522
1925 - 1983
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 523
1931 - 2019
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 524
1921 - 2017
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 525
1926 - Present
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 526
1777 - 1852
HPI: 41.15
Rank: 527
Among people born in 1895, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 250. Before him are Alexander Aitken, Alberta Hunter, Edward Brophy, István Barta, Margaret Livingston, and Yakima Canutt. After him are Lancelot Hogben, Adam Papée, Beattie Ramsay, Norman Ross, Evelyn Brent, and Ernie Collett. Among people deceased in 1948, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 157. Before him are Thomas Mofolo, Adolf Kainz, René Benjamin, Carl Abrahamsson, István Barta, and Mary Eaton. After him are Henri Hazebrouck, Poul Heegaard, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Elissa Landi, Susan Glaspell, and John Anderson.
1895 - 1967
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 244
1895 - 1984
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 245
1895 - 1960
HPI: 42.45
Rank: 246
1895 - 1948
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 247
1895 - 1984
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 248
1895 - 1986
HPI: 41.93
Rank: 249
1895 - 1948
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 250
1895 - 1975
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 251
1895 - 1990
HPI: 41.62
Rank: 252
1895 - 1952
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 253
1895 - 1953
HPI: 41.53
Rank: 254
1895 - 1975
HPI: 41.32
Rank: 255
1895 - 1951
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 256
1876 - 1948
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 151
1903 - 1948
HPI: 43.24
Rank: 152
1885 - 1948
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 153
1896 - 1948
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 154
1895 - 1948
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 155
1901 - 1948
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 156
1895 - 1948
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 157
1877 - 1948
HPI: 41.76
Rank: 158
1871 - 1948
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 159
1888 - 1948
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 160
1904 - 1948
HPI: 41.28
Rank: 161
1876 - 1948
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 162
1907 - 1948
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 163
Among people born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 708 out of 1,493. Before him are Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896), and Homi K. Bhabha (1949). After him are Ruskin Bond (1934), A. R. Rahman (1966), I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Tapan Sinha (1924), Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910), and Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734).
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.10
Rank: 702
1938 - 2009
HPI: 42.08
Rank: 703
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.06
Rank: 704
1920 - 1989
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 705
1896 - 1982
HPI: 41.93
Rank: 706
1949 - Present
HPI: 41.87
Rank: 707
1895 - 1948
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 708
1934 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 709
1966 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 710
1897 - 1960
HPI: 41.82
Rank: 711
1924 - 2009
HPI: 41.76
Rank: 712
1910 - 2000
HPI: 41.73
Rank: 713
1734 - 1803
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 714
Among chemists born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 5. Before him are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Kamala Sohonie (1912), Asima Chatterjee (1917), and C. N. R. Rao (1934). After him are Darshan Ranganathan (1941).
1952 - Present
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 1
1912 - 1998
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 2
1917 - 2006
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 3
1934 - Present
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 4
1895 - 1948
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 5
1941 - 2001
HPI: 34.48
Rank: 6