Charles best insulin biography of donald
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When Frederick Banting’s phone rang one morning in October 1923, it was the call that every scientist must dream of receiving. On the other end of the line, an excited friend asked Banting if he had seen the morning newspapers. When Banting said no, his friend broke the news himself. Banting had just been awarded the Nobel prize for his upptäckt of insulin.
Banting told his friend to “go to hell” and slammed the receiver down. Then he went out and bought the morning paper. Sure enough, there in the headlines he saw in black and vit that his worst fears had come true: he had indeed been awarded the Nobel – but so too had his boss, John Macleod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto.
This is a tale of monstrous egos, toxic career rivalries and injustices. But of course, there is another character in this drama: diabetes itself.
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According to a recent World Health Organization report,
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The Wild, Rarely Told Story of the Discovery of Insulin
Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a ‘sweet urine’ that, according to a legendary Roman academic, could make life “short, disgusting, and painful.”
So when Canadian physician Sir Frederick Banting and his American medical assistant Dr. Charles H. Best created insulin in Toronto, treatment of the disease was absolutely transformed, likely saving tens of millions of human lives.
Basically, too few people with diabetes actually know the true story of how insulin was discovered.
Yet while insulin has been described as “arguably the greatest medical miracle of this century,” the scarcely believable story behind its discovery is not well known.
Guided by a great research partnershipthat started with the toss of a coin, and ended with a plane crash, it weaves its way from post-World War I Toronto to Stockholm, where a Nobel Prize in m
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Charles Best (medical scientist)
Canadian co-discoverer of insulin (1899–1978)
For other people named Charles Best, see Charles Best (disambiguation).
Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978), was an American-Canadian medical forskare and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. He served as the chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto and was further involved in research concerning choline and heparin.
Early life
[edit]Charles Herbert Best was born in Pembroke, Maine, on February 27, 1899, to Luella (Lulu) Fisher[1] and Herbert Huestis Best,[2] a Canadian-born physician from Nova Scotia.[3] His father, Herbert Best, was a doctor in a small Maine town with a limited economy based mostly on sardine-packing.[3] His mother Lulu was a soprano singer, organist, and pianist. Charles Best grew up in Pembroke before going to Toronto, Ontario, to study me