Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923

Frederick Grant Banting

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Prize share: 1/2

John James Rickard Macleod

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 was awarded jointly to Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard Macleod "for the discovery of insulin"

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