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Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best, was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. He served as the chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto and was further involved in research concerning choline and heparin.
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science · Canadian co-discoverer of insulin (1899–1978) · biochemist · physician · physiologist · also Charles Herbert Best, Charles Best (medical scientist), C. H. Best, Charles Best, Best
Born 27 February 1899 · Died 31 March 1978 · Q867690
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2023· 1 entry
Professor Erling Norrby, former chair of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, made a presentation - The Optimal Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and presented the following information from the Nobel arc
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004).
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Was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (1994).
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Was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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1978· 2 entries
Died 1978-03-31.
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Best died on March 31, 1978, in Toronto.
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1972· 1 entry
An official history of the Nobel Committee declared that omitting Best might have been a mistake
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1971).
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1967· 1 entry
Was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition for "his contribution to medicine, particularly as co-discoverer of insulin
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1955· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1955).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1952).
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1950· 2 entries
Won Flavelle Medal (1950).
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“Best was nominated 14 times 1950-1954. The main nominator was Henry Dale who had been supervisor for Best’s Ph.D. work. The discovery proposed to be awarded was Best’s work on the lipotropic effect of choline, but Dale argued that separately that Best should have shared the 1923 prize to Banting. Best was subject to four evaluations by Ulf von Euler who gave support to Dale’s nomination. Although Best was declared worthy of a prize (1951, 1952, 1954) he never received it.”
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1945).
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1941· 1 entry
"If I don’t come back and they give my [Professorial] Chair to that son-of-a-bitch Best, I’ll never rest in my grave", shortly before Banting boarded a plane for the UK which crashed and killed him
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1939· 1 entry
Won Baly Medal (1939).
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded F.N.G. Starr Award (1936).
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1923· 1 entry
The Nobel Prize Committee honoured Banting and John Macleod with the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin, ignoring Best and Collip
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1918· 1 entry
Enlisted in the Canadian Army serving with the 2nd Canadian Tank Battalion
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1915· 1 entry
To Toronto, Ontario, where he started studying towards a bachelor of arts degree at University College, University of Toronto
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1899· 2 entries
Born 1899-02-27.
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To Luella (Lulu) Fisher and Herbert Huestis Best, a Canadian-born physician from Nova Scotia
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1896· 1 entry
“Evolution or creation; a critical review of the scientific and scriptural theories of creation and certain related subjects”
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1865· 1 entry
“I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work”
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1862· 1 entry
“The Facts and Fancies of Mr. Darwin”
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