David Alymer Scott

David Alymer Scott (born October 2, 1892 in Kincardine (Ontario) , † November 18, 1971 in Toronto ) was a Canadian biochemist.

Scott was the son of a Scottish farmer and spoke Gaelic as a first language in his family. Scott studied chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Toronto from 1914 and then went into the chemical industry. In 1919 he returned to the University of Toronto and was particularly concerned with biochemistry. In 1920 he received his bachelor's degree, worked again in industry (this time the paper industry), was at McGill University and Queen's University in Kingston before he came to Charles Best's laboratory in Toronto in 1922 and worked with him the insulin isolation worked. In 1922 he received his master’s degree and in 1925 he received his doctorate. In 1928 he spent a year with Charles Robert Harington at the Medical Faculty of University College London and confirmed the results of John Jacob Abel by crystallizing insulin, who also succeeded in doing this at Johns Hopkins University in 1925 , but this had been doubted. He also dealt further with insulin and found, among other things, the crystallization as a complex with zinc, nickel, cobalt or cadmium. In 1933 he succeeded in crystallizing heparin .

In 1949 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 391
• Charles H. Best, Albert M. Fisher, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 18, 1972, pp. 510-524