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John E. Walker

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Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John E. Walker is the 167th most popular chemist (up from 185th in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 767th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John E. Walker ranks 167 out of 602. Before him are Georg Wittig, Edmond H. Fischer, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Willard Libby. After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Derek Barton, Richard F. Heck, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and Akira Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, John E. Walker ranks 50. Before him are Theodor W. Hänsch, Charlie Watts, David Johnston, Bobby Moore, Dennis Ritchie, and Wolfgang Petersen. After him are Paul Simon, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Hank Marvin, George Clinton, Nathalie Delon, and Viktor Zubkov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John E. Walker ranks 605 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Oughtred (1574), Tim Curry (1946), Charles Dance (1946), Ronald Coase (1910), and Philip Sclater (1829). After him are John Collier (1850), Andrew Huxley (1917), Peter Gabriel (1950), Jonathan Pryce (1947), David II of Scotland (1324), and Edwin of Northumbria (586).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John E. Walker ranks 23. Before him are M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), Harry Kroto (1939), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), and Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861). After him are Derek Barton (1918), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), James Dewar (1842), and Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921).

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