Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923
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Frederick Grant Banting
Prize share: 1/2
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John James Rickard Macleod
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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