Canadian discoverers of insulin win Nobel

[Northerner]

Gazette, Oct. 26, 1923

STOCKHOLM, OCT. 25 - The Nobel prize for medicine for 1923 has been awarded to Dr. F.G. Banting and Dr. J.J.R. Macleod, of Toronto, for their discovery of insulin.

The Swedish scientist Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died in 1896. He bequeathed a fortune amounting to $9,000,000 to the founding of a fund, the interest of which should yearly be distributed to those who had most contributed to the benefit of mankind during the year immediately preceding the award.



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[Copepod]

Interesting - while I reckon the discoverers of insulin could foresee alternative methods of administering insulin (pens, pumps etc) and oral medication to improve insulin uptake in resistance, I wonder if they could foresee digitazation of newspapers on the internet?!?

Nobel Prize website is a great resource, with biographies of all laureates. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/

Obviously it doesn't cover people who missed out on awards eg Banting shared his prize money with Charles Herbert Best.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars, but the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to her supervisor Antony Hewish, and Martin Ryle