Charles Best was the medical student who worked alongside Frederick Banting through the summer of 1921 in John Macleod's University of Toronto laboratory, isolating and testing the pancreatic extract that became insulin. Denied a share of the 1923 Nobel Prize, which honored Banting and Macleod alone, Best received half of Banting's own prize money in protest, and he went on to a career in physiology, later succeeding Macleod as head of the department.
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He co-discovered insulin with Frederick Banting.
Charles Herbert Best was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. He also served as chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto and was involved in research concerning choline and heparin.
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Worked alongside Banting through 1921 to isolate and test the extract; excluded from the 1923 Nobel Prize, which Banting split with him in protest.
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1. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter, W. W. Norton and Company, 1997
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For more details on the discovery, extraction, purification, clinical use, and synthesis of insulin, see Insulin 1921 Research on the role of pancreas in the nutritive assimilation 1922 Frederick Banting, Charles Best and James Collip use bovine insulin extract in humans at Connaught Laboratories in Toronto, Canada. 1922 Leonard Thompson becomes the first human to be treated with insulin.
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