renden
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Post by renden on Jul 15, 2021 18:22:58 GMT
In 1921, Sir Frederick G Banting , JJR Macleod, and Charles H Best discovered insulin at the University of Toronto (CANADA). Since 1925, insulin has been available for use Canada Post issued Permanent stamps in booklets of 10 - 1921-2021 The Nobel Prize committee in 1923 credited the practical extraction of insulin to a team at the University of Toronto and awarded the Nobel Prize to two men: Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod.[151] They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for the discovery of insulin As Canadian I am proud of this achievement !  |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 15, 2021 20:32:57 GMT
A personal story if I may. A cousin of my father with the same name, Alex Walker, was an industrial Chemist in Shanghai in 1939 and 1940 when the Japanese invaded China ( we were at war with Germany but not yet at war with Japan) .
The Japanese were commandeering all medicines including insulin from the Chinese hospitals. Our cousin whose expertise was in dyestuffs for ICI , read textbooks and somehow developed a method to extract insulin from cow pancreas, to pass to the local hospitals . His apparatus included borrowed glassware equipment from the German hospital apparently freely given by a German professor with the statement " our countries are at war but take this equipment with my blessing on ground of humanity".
Repatriated to the UK after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour his achievements were marked big time in the UK Press.
Incidentally John Macleod was Scottish , a graduate of my High School, Aberdeen Grammar and of Aberdeen University, before emigrating to Ohio then Canada>
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 15, 2021 21:10:52 GMT
First of all, I want to say thank you to René ( renden) for starting this thread and to Alex ( vikingeck) for your nice story. As it happens, I contracted Type I diabetes in 2006, and I would not be alive today, were it not for the discovery of insulin, as noted by René and commemorated in the stamp. I am embarrassed to admit that even after I heard about the discovery of insulin in general, and its importance to my staying alive, I never bothered to learn the details. So, although I never even knew their names until now, I owe the last 15 years of my life to Best, Banting, Macleod, and Collip. Also glad to know that Macleod spent time in my home state of Ohio.... I love the connection. Of course, I can never really pay them back, other than to do the best I can with the years they have given me.  |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 17, 2021 21:40:10 GMT
I wanted to make a post of thanks to René ( renden) for sending me a complete booklet of these Discovery of Insulin commemorative stamps.... they arrived just the other day, and I really appreciate receiving them. Thank you very much, my friend! -Chris |
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renden
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Post by renden on Aug 17, 2021 21:49:18 GMT
I wanted to make a post of thanks to René ( renden ) for sending me a complete booklet of these Discovery of Insulin commemorative stamps.... they arrived just the other day, and I really appreciate receiving them. Thank you very much, my friend! -Chris Welcome Chris !! They are well made and bear a "P" for permanent......they keep their value for Canada mail René |
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