Charles Best, Canadian Medical Researcher

Charles Herbert Best (February 27, 1899 - March 31, 1978) was an American-Canadian medical scientist. He worked as an assistant to Frederick Banting and played a major role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin, one of the more significant medical advances, enabling an effective treatment for diabetes. In 1923, the Nobel Prize Committee honored Banting and J.J.R. Macleod with the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin, ignoring Charles Best. This angered Banting who then chose to share half of the prize money with Best. During World War II he was influential in establishing a Canadian program for securing and using dried human blood serum. In his later years, he was an adviser to the Medical Research Committee of the United Nations World Health Organization. In 1994 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He received 18 Honorary Degrees from Universities around the World. He died in 1978 at the age of 79

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