Macleod, John James Richard

Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002509

1876–1935 Scottish physiologist who helped to isolate insulin.

Keywords: diabetes; insulin; Banting; Best; Bernard

 Further Reading
    book Macleod JJR (1913) Diabetes: Its Pathological Physiology. New York: Longmans Green.
    book Macleod JJR (1926) Carbohydrate Metabolism and Insulin. New York: Longmans Green.
    book Dictionary of National Biography (1931–40) Wickham Legg LG (ed.), pp. 585–586. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.), vol. 8, pp. 614–615. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    Obituary (1935) Nature 153: 533–534.
    Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (1932–1935) 1: 585–589.
    book Stevenson LG (1953) Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology, 1901–1950, pp. 109–114. New York: Henry Schuman.

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Herrick, Claire EJ(Apr 2001) Macleod, John James Richard. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002509]