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John Macleod (physiologist)

John Macleod (physiologist)
John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

John James Rickard Macleod,, 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.

6 September 1876

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