John James Rickard Macleod

Place: Cluny

Born: 1876

Death: 1935

Biography:

John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He was born on September 6, 1876 at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. He was the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod. He studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and later at the University of Leipzig. In 1902, he became a lecturer in biochemistry at the London Hospital Medical School. In 1903, he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. He later served as a professor at McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Frederick Grant Banting, for the discovery of insulin. He died on March 16, 1935 in Aberdeen, Scotland.