Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941 · Canada · Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
Co-discovered insulin and sold the patent for one dollar.
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Inherited from1
- Nicolae Paulescu
1869 – 1931 · Medicine
Paulescu's pancreine papers preceded and paralleled the Toronto insulin work.
Passed the work to1
- Bernardo Houssay
1887 – 1971 · Medicine
Houssay's pituitary–pancreas experiments extended insulin physiology into endocrine regulation.
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