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A sensitive, loyal and affectionate man of engaging personality, his serene spirit met with courage and optimism the painful and crippling disabilities which troubled the final years of his busy life. Macleod was married to Mary McWalter. He died on March 16, 1935.
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John James Rickard Macleod FRS, FRSE [1] (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.
More than one hundred years ago, the 1923 medicine prize was awarded to Frederick Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin. Here, experts from the Nobel Assembly and Karolinska Institutet discuss the story behind the discovery and how it has revolutionised the broader landscape of scientific advancements.
In the fall of 1918, Professor J.J.R. Macleod, a respected physiologist whose chief research interests lay in carbohydrate metabolism, arrived in Toronto to take up the Chair of Physiology at the University.
John James Rickard Macleod, while sometimes remembered as a co-discoverer of insulin, was moreover one of the world's most accomplished academic physiologists in the early 1900s. A medical graduate in Aberdeen, Scotland, he pursued a career in physiology, travelling to Leipzig and London.
In the early 1920s Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under the directorship of John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available for the successful treatment of diabetes.
Sep 2, 2024 · J.J.R. Macleod was a Scottish physiologist noted as a teacher and for his work on carbohydrate metabolism. Together with Sir Frederick Banting, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923, and Charles H. Best, he achieved renown as one of the discoverers of insulin.
