Blue plaque for team behind diabetic breakthrough

[Northerner]

The work of three scientists who together made a difference to the lives of millions of diabetes sufferers was celebrated this week with the unveiling of a permanent commemorative plaque.

Using a new chemical technique the scientific trio created a medical device for people with diabetes that allows them to easily monitor the level of sugar in their blood using just a pin-prick in the finger and a tiny drop.

Tony Cass, who is now Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London, and former colleagues Allen Hill and Graham Davis have been immortalised in a National Chemical Landmark blue plaque presented by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The plaque was erected at the Oxford laboratory where they carried out the work in the 1980's.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_20-7-2012-17-32-2

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[trophywench]

Bless em !

 

[robert@fm]

The new electrochemical sensor was released in 1982, but my first meter (bought in 2000, used until 2004 when I decided to replace it with one from which I could download readings) used the old colorimetric method...