John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
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John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physician and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering insulin, a breakthrough treatment for diabetes. His work fundamentally changed medicine by providing a way to manage a previously life-threatening disease.
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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. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.
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1876 births1935 deaths19th-century Scottish medical doctors20th-century Scottish medical doctorsAcademic staff of Leipzig UniversityAcademic staff of the University of TorontoAcademic staff of the University of Toronto Faculty of MedicineAlumni of the University of AberdeenBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyCanadian fellows of the Royal SocietyCanadian Nobel laureates