100 years ago today, Canadian clinician Dr Fred Banting received the phone call of which every scientist must secretly dream. But on hearing that he’d just won the 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin – a milestone in medicine that would save countless lives (my own included), his reaction was not what you might have expected.
He was furious. Utterly livid, in fact… find out why at https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/2521/the-controversy-of-insulin-and-its-nobel-prize-100-years-on