John James Rickard Macleod
1876
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1935
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: physician, inventor, university teacher, physiologist
John James Rickard Macleod, (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935), was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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