Awarded Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2012).
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John James Rickard Macleod
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 Phys…
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science · Scottish biochemist and physiologist (1876–1935) · physician · inventor · university teacher · physiologist · also John James Rickard Macleod, John Macleod (physiologist), J.J.R. Macleod, John Macleod, John James Macleod, John J.R. Macleod
Born 6 September 1876 · Died 16 March 1935 · Q232024
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2012· 2 entries
Was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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1972· 1 entry
The Nobel Foundation officially conceded that omitting Best was a mistake
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1950· 1 entry
Was the first independent revision of all sides of the story made, and it gave credit to all four members of the team
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1941· 1 entry
Best, with the help of his friends, continued to spread Banting's account of the discovery and tried to "write out" Macleod and Collip from the history books
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1935· 2 entries
Died 1935-03-16.
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In Aberdeen after several years of suffering from arthritis, despite which he remained active almost until his death
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1933· 1 entry
Made a lecture tour of the US, and in 1934 he published the 7th edition of his book Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1932).
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1928· 2 entries
Banting harbored such enmity that he refused to attend the farewell dinner for Macleod
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To become Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Aberdeen (in succession to his former teacher, John Alexander MacWilliam who retired in 1927) and later Dean of the University of Aberdeen Medical Faculty
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1923· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of insulin.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1923).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923).
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Macleod was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1922· 1 entry
To explain his side of the story, but otherwise refrained from active involvement in controversy about credit
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1919· 1 entry
And president of American Physiological Society in 1921
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1916· 1 entry
Was a Professor of Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada
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1910· 1 entry
Delivered a lecture on various forms of experimental diabetes and their significance for diabetes mellitus at the joint meeting of the section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the section on Pathology and Physiolo
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1905· 1 entry
Became interested in carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes, publishing a series of scientific papers and several monographs on the subject from then on
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1903· 1 entry
Macleod became a lecturer in physiology at the Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained for 15 years
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1902· 1 entry
Was appointed lecturer in biochemistry
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1898· 1 entry
And then spent a year studying biochemistry at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on a travelling scholarship
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-09-06.
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