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James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (died 1965)
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Biochemist; part of group that isolated insulin
James Bertram Collip was a Canadian biochemist who was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the chair of the department of biochemistry at McGill University from 1928 to 1941 and dean of medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947 to 1961,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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