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Mac·leod

(mə-kloud′), John James Rickard 1876-1935.

British physiologist. He shared a 1923 Nobel Prize for the purification of insulin and its application to the treatment of diabetes.

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Macleod

(məˈklaʊd)

(Biography) John James Rickard. 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1923) with Banting for their part in discovering insulin

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Mac•leod

(məˈklaʊd)

n.

John James Rick•ard (ˈrɪk ərd) 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: a discoverer of insulin.

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Macleod - Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)

John James Rickard Macleod, John Macleod

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