| Administrative History | John James Rickard Macleod was born near Dunkeld in 1876 and was educated at Aberdeen and Leipzig. He studied medicine and undertook research in London, America and Canada. In Canada he began the research into blood sugar levels which led to the discovery of insulin, and his controversial acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Medicine with his assistant Frederick Banting in 1923. He moved back to Aberdeen in 1928 and held the post of Professor of Physiology until his death in 1935. |