Macleod, John James (J.J.) Rickard

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(1876-1935)
Medicine (Physiology) (1918-1928)
Specialization: carbohydrate metabolism/behaviour of sugar in the blood
Born Aberdeen, Scotland; educated Scotland, Germany, England.
1903: Emigrated to US to teach at Western Reserve University, Columbus, Ohio
Came to University of Toronto as ther Professor of Physiology and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1918

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923

References

Bliss, Michael. Banting: A Biography.Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Richard_Macleod
http://jp.physoc.org/content/57/3-4/234.full.pdf