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Arthur Harden

1865 - 1940

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Sir Arthur Harden, FRS (12 October 1865 – 17 June 1940) was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes. He was a founding member of the Biochemical Society and editor of the Biochemical Journal for 25 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Harden is the 49th most popular chemist (up from 50th in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 317th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Chemist.

Arthur Harden was a British chemist who is most famous for his work in the field of inorganic chemistry. He is known for his research in the fields of crystallography, electrochemistry, and spectroscopy.

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Among chemists, Arthur Harden ranks 49 out of 602. Before him are Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and Victor Grignard. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, and Rodney Robert Porter.

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Among people born in 1865, Arthur Harden ranks 9. Before him are Pieter Zeeman, Rudyard Kipling, Erich Ludendorff, Archduke Otto of Austria, Ferdinand I of Romania, and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy. After him are Warren G. Harding, W. B. Yeats, Carl Nielsen, Alexander Glazunov, Suzanne Valadon, and Sven Hedin. Among people deceased in 1940, Arthur Harden ranks 9. Before him are J. J. Thomson, Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, Carl Bosch, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Verner von Heidenstam, and Emma Goldman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Harden ranks 249 out of 8,785. Before him are Boudica (33), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), C. F. Powell (1903), Charlotte Rampling (1946), and Henry III of England (1207). After him are Horace Walpole (1717), John A. Macdonald (1815), Archer Martin (1910), Roger Moore (1927), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), and James Hunt (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Harden ranks 8. Before him are William Ramsay (1852), John Macleod (1876), Alexander R. Todd (1907), Robert Robinson (1886), Humphry Davy (1778), and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897). After him are Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), and Henry Hallett Dale (1875).

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