John Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
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- Doctors rank#77
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United KingdomA Scottish biochemist who shared the 1923 Nobel for insulin — then spent years fighting claims he barely contributed. Banting said Macleod's role was negligible; decades later, independent review said otherwise.
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John James Rickard Macleod was born on 6 September 1876, a Scottish biochemist and physiologist who spent his career on topics ranging across physiology and biochemistry, with carbohydrate metabolism at the center. During his time as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, he played a part in the discovery and isolation of insulin, work that earned him and Frederick Banting the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The award sparked controversy: Banting's account painted Macleod's contribution as negligible, a version that stuck for years. Only decades after the fact did an independent…
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