ON THIS DAY in 1923, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded...

[Northerner]

...to Frederick Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin.

Before the 1920s, Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence.

The scientists sold the patent for $1 each, believing the life-saving drug belonged to the world.

https://beyondtype1.org/brief-history-insulin/

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I love that they gave the rights away for $1

I wonder what they would make of the prices of insulin in the US, and continuing unavailability in different parts of the world almost 100 years later

 

[trophywench]

I should think they've bored a double hole smack through the centre of the earth by now, spinning in their graves, Mike!

 

[nonethewiser]

I wonder what they would make of the prices of insulin in the US, and continuing unavailability in different parts of the world almost 100 years later

One word, appalled.