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- ▶ 6:03 David Rosenthal So, this group, if you could call it that, at the University of Toronto, is comprised of the physician Frederick Banting and the medical student, his assistant, Charles Best, along with a chemist and the head of the laboratory there, and…
- ▶ 6:30 David Rosenthal The historical consensus at this point now being that it really was Banting and Best who did all the work.
- ▶ 6:37 David Rosenthal But nonetheless, two years later, when the Nobel Committee awards them the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin, it is Banting and McLeod who get
- ▶ 9:08 David Rosenthal Alright, so what did Bantic and Bess do?
- ▶ 9:29 Ben Gilbert And to put a finer point on it, Banting and Best didn't even know what the hormone was.
- ▶ 12:55 David Rosenthal Yeah, Banting and Best and McLeod aren't gonna go, you know, today they would go, like, start a company, you know, around this.
- ▶ 16:34 David Rosenthal Okay, so back to this whole Nobel Prize thing, which as we said, was awarded to Banting and Assistant Medical School Dean John McCloud.
- ▶ 16:43 David Rosenthal Now, how did McCloud end up being the guy who shares the award with Banting and not Best?
- ▶ 17:47 Ben Gilbert So the guy who would go on to found Novo Nordisk is the one that nominated Banting and McLeod for the Nobel Prize before starting the company.
- ▶ 27:57 David Rosenthal And so they partnered together, and by the summer of 1923, the very same summer that the Nobel Committee is debating on the award for that year, and of course Crowe at this point has nominated his buddy McLeod along with Banting, by that…