John Macleod (physiologist)

John Macleod
John Macleod c. 1928
Born(1876-09-06)6 September 1876
Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland
Died16 March 1935(1935-03-16) (aged 58)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
University of Leipzig
Known forCo-discovery of insulin
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923)
Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1923)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsCase Western Reserve University
University of Toronto
University of Aberdeen

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. 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.[2]

  1. ^ Cathcart, E. P. (1935). "John James Rickard Macleod. 1876-1935". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (4): 584–589. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0023. JSTOR 768990. PMC 1266622.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2011.