Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
25th anniversary ed
ISBN:
9780226058979
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0226058972
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9780226075631
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022607563X
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9781442621480
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1442621486
Inhalt:
Preface, 2007; Introduction: What Happened at Toronto?; Chapter One: A Long Prelude; Chapter Two: Banting's Idea; Chapter Three: The Summer of 1921; Chapter Four: ""A Mysterious Something""; Chapter Five: Triumph; Chapter Six: ""Unspeakably Wonderful""; Chapter Seven: Resurrection; Chapter Eight: Who Discovered Insulin?; Chapter Nine: Honouring the Prophets; Chapter Ten: A Continuing Epilogue; Notes; Sources; Index
Inhalt:
In a brilliant, definitive history of one of the most significant and controversial medical events of modern times, award-winning historian Michael Bliss brings to light a bizarre clash of scientific personalities. When F. G. Banting and J. J. R. Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering and isolating insulin, Banting immediately announced that he was dividing his share of the prize with his young associate, C. H. Best. Macleod divided his share with a fourth member of the team, J. B. Collip. For the next sixty years medical opinion was intensely divided over the allotment of credi
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Sprache:
Englisch
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