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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 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

Among chemists, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 521 out of 509Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 250Before 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 157Before 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.

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In India

Among people born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 708 out of 1,493Before 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).

Among CHEMISTS In India

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