John James Rickard MacLeod
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DedicateeDedicated to
John James Rickard MacLeod
(Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland, 1876 - 1935)
DescriptionJOHN JAMES RICKARD MACLEOD 1876 - 1935 CO-DISCOVERER OF INSULIN AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNER LIVED HEREHistoryProfessor John James Rickard Macleod, educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, was a University of Aberdeen medical graduate (1898) who had a highly successful career as a researcher and teacher in physiology and biochemistry. His greatest achievement was leading the research team in Toronto that in 1922 discovered insulin that could be used to treat diabetes. Professor Macleod shared the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his work on insulin. He ended his career back in Marischal College as Professor of Physiology in the department where his interest in the subject began in his student days.
The plaque was approved in 1991 and erected shortly thereafter on the wall outside 32 Cairn Road in Cults. Professor Macleod had this house built following his return to Aberdeen in 1928 from Canada and lived there for the last 5 years of his life.
Location Info32, Cairn Road, Bieldside
