John James Richard Macleod (1876-1935)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of insulin.”

Scottish physiologist. Macleod was born on September 16, 1876 at Cluny, Scotland. He studied medicine at the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen and graduated in 1898. In 1899 he was appointed Demonstrator of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical School and in 1902, Lecturer in Biochemistry. In 1903, he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Western Reserve University. In 1918 he was elected Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada and Director of the Physiological Laboratory and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. In 1928 he was appointed Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Aberdeen. He died on March 16, 1935 at Aberteen.