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Norman Haworth

1883 - 1950

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Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins. Haworth worked out the correct structure of a number of sugars, and is known among organic chemists for his development of the Haworth projection that translates three-dimensional sugar structures into convenient two-dimensional graphical form. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Haworth is the 62nd most popular chemist (down from 61st in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 336th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Chemist.

Norman Haughton is most famous for his work in the field of economics, specifically in the fields of macroeconomics and international economics. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Among chemists, Norman Haworth ranks 62 out of 602. Before him are Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Francis William Aston. After him are John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, and Gerty Cori.

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Among people born in 1883, Norman Haworth ranks 14. Before him are Walter Gropius, Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, and Lev Kamenev. After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Grigory Zinoviev, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, Morihei Ueshiba, and Clement Attlee. Among people deceased in 1950, Norman Haworth ranks 7. Before him are George Orwell, Vallabhbhai Patel, George Bernard Shaw, Gustaf V of Sweden, Johannes V. Jensen, and Joseph Schumpeter. After him are Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Heinrich Mann, and Marcel Mauss.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Norman Haworth ranks 298 out of 8,785. Before him are James Black (1924), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Francis William Aston (1877), George Best (1946), Alfred Marshall (1842), and Saint Ursula (400). After him are Edward Smith (1850), John Sulston (1942), John Logie Baird (1888), Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), John Law (1671), and Peter Higgs (1929).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Norman Haworth ranks 13. Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), and Francis William Aston (1877). After him are Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Sanger (1918), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), and George Porter (1920).

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