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John James Rickard Macleod

Nobel prize-winning scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin.

Born September 6th, 1876 in Clunie.

Died March 16th, 1935 at 58 years old in Aberdeen.

Occupations
inventor, physician, physiologist, university teacher

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck