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John Vane

1927 - 2004

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Sir John Robert Vane (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Vane is the 226th most popular chemist (down from 199th in 2019), the 859th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 804th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Vane ranks 226 out of 602. Before him are C. N. R. Rao, Ahmed Zewail, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, Joachim Frank, and Hartmut Michel. After him are William Hyde Wollaston, Richard Abegg, Ignacy Mościcki, Stanley Miller, James B. Conant, and Stanislao Cannizzaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, John Vane ranks 56. Before him are Geneviève Page, George O. Abell, Alan MacDiarmid, Romano Mussolini, Stan Getz, and Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad. After him are Daniel Keyes, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Marvin Minsky, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Carlo Maria Martini, and Pat Carroll. Among people deceased in 2004, John Vane ranks 38. Before him are Leônidas, Gérard Debreu, Renata Tebaldi, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Edward B. Lewis, and Jerry Goldsmith. After him are Ingrid Thulin, John Pople, Thomas Klestil, Godfrey Hounsfield, Masanori Tokita, and Takeshi Kamo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Vane ranks 859 out of 8,785. Before him are Sean Bean (1959), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), John Nelson Darby (1800), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), Christopher Tolkien (1924), and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are Amélie of Orléans (1865), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Glenda Jackson (1936), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), Mike Hawthorn (1929), and Ælla of Northumbria (800).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Vane ranks 31. Before him are Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), James Dewar (1842), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), and John Newlands (1837). After him are William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Frederic Daniell (1790), John Pople (1925), Ida Noddack (1896), Fraser Stoddart (1942), and Thomas Graham (1805).

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