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Yellapragada Subbarow

1895 - 1948

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Yellapragada Subbarow (alternatively spelled Yellaparagada Subba Rao; 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 eight days. He subsequently discovered folic acid as a cure for tropical sprue. He discovered methotrexate, a chemotherapy drug still used today and also used for rheumatoid arthritis, and diethylcarbamazine (DEC), the only effective drug for treating filariasis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yellapragada Subbarow is the 479th most popular chemist (up from 584th in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from India (up from 917th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 479 out of 602. Before him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Hugo Erdmann, K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, and Carl Theodore Liebermann. After him are Phoebus Levene, Masatoshi Shima, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Ivan Horbachevsky, Archibald Scott Couper, and Alwin Mittasch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 201. Before him are Titsian Tabidze, Egon Pearson, Giuseppe Bottai, Ruth Fischer, Hans Rosbaud, and Ayna Sultanova. After him are Bert Lahr, Karel Pešek, Paavo Johansson, Nikolay Shchors, Pauline Pfeiffer, and Geo Milev. Among people deceased in 1948, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 143. Before him are Alfred Kerr, Alfred Lacroix, Emmy Hennings, May Whitty, Elsa Brändström, and Ernst Herzfeld. After him are Alfredo Baldomir, George Horine, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Siegmund von Hausegger, Gregg Toland, and Bevil Rudd.

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In India

Among people born in India, Yellapragada Subbarow ranks 565 out of 1,861. Before him are Meena Kumari (1933), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), Shiva Rajkumar (1961), Shammi Kapoor (1931), M. F. Husain (1915), and Bhikaiji Cama (1861). After him are Hemu (1501), William Birdwood (1865), Sidharth Malhotra (1985), Malik Kafur (1250), Arjun Appadurai (1949), and B. V. Doshi (1927).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

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

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