A little history/geography quiz

[CGM]

OK, while we're struggling with Scrap's question on missing links, I'll throw this one out...

What was the claim to fame of Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923?

[Scrap]

They didnt say atually where, but its in the Artic circle North Greenland.

[armin]

Hmmm 1923, he found a cure for polio

[CGM]

OK, while we're struggling with Scrap's question on missing links, I'll throw this one out...

What was the claim to fame of Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923?

Nope Armin, a polio cure is not the correct answer

[armin]

I figured it wasn't it was just a shot in the dark , not well read on medical history.

[CGM]

I figured it wasn't it was just a shot in the dark , not well read on medical history.

I'll give you a hint. It was a very significant discovery, that even today improves and extends the lives of millions of people around the world that suffer from a particular ailment. And this ailment is not a headache, or common cold, or allergy.

[Scrap]

Diabetis, help

[CGM]

Diabetis, help

That's close enough. Banting discovered insulin, and developed a process to mass produce it.

[Scrap]

What a wonderfull man, I use it . But it was a guess on the time scale.