James Collip

James Bertram Collip
Collip in his office at McGill University, c. 1930
Born
James Bertram Collip

(1892-11-20)November 20, 1892
DiedJune 19, 1965(1965-06-19) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Known forPurification of insulin[2]
AwardsFlavelle Medal (1936)
Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1937)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry

James Bertram Collip (November 20, 1892 – June 19, 1965) was a Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the chair of the department of biochemistry at McGill University from 1928 to 1941 and dean of medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947 to 1961, where he was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society.[3]

  1. ^ Barr, M. L.; Rossiter, R. J. (1973). "James Bertram Collip 1892-1965". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 234–267. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0009. PMID 11615724. S2CID 35038024.
  2. ^ Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin, 1982, McLellan & Stewart
  3. ^ Noble, R. L. (1965). "Memories of James Bertram Collip". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 93 (26): 1356–1364. PMC 1935207. PMID 5321114.