John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod (born September 6, 1876 in Cluny near Dunkeld , Scotland , † March 16, 1935 in Aberdeen , Scotland) was a Scottish- Canadian physiologist and co-discoverer of insulin , for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1923 .
Life
John Macleod studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and graduated with honors. He then studied biochemistry in Leipzig . In 1903 he was appointed professor of physiology at Western Reserve University in Cleveland , USA , but moved to Toronto , Canada in 1918 .
Macleod did important work on diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism . For the research that led to the isolation of insulin in 1921 , he and Frederick G. Banting received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 . The awarding of the prize to him, and not to the medical student Charles Best , who was essentially involved in the discovery , was not without controversy. However, he and Banting shared their prize money with Best and with James Collip , the biochemist who was responsible for obtaining the insulin extract from pancreatic tissue . The campaign strained Macleod increasingly until he finally decided in 1928 to succeed John Alexander MacWilliams (1857-1937) in the Regius Professorship of Physiology at the University of Aberdeen. He held the professorship until his premature death.
In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
John Macleod died on March 16, 1935 at the age of 58.
In 2012 Macleod was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame . He has been the namesake of Macleod Point , a headland in Antarctica, since 1960 .
literature
- Thomas Schlich: MacLeod, John James Rickard. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 878.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Bliss; The Discovery of Insulins ; University of Chicago Press; 1982.
- ↑ a b John James Rickard Macleod ( 1876-1935 ) at www.med-chi.co.uk/; accessed on December 29, 2016.
Web links
- Literature by and about John James Rickard Macleod in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the award ceremony in 1923 to John James Rickard Macleod
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Macleod, John James Rickard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish-Canadian physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluny at Dunkeld , Scotland , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1935 |
| Place of death | Aberdeen , Scotland , United Kingdom |