Charles Best

Standard Name: Best, Charles

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1869

German physician Paul Langerhans dissected a pancreas and discovered the small group of cells now called islets of Langerhans, later identified as the source of insulin.

Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.

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Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.

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December 1921

Frederick Banting , Charles Best , and John J. R. Macleod presented a paper to the American Physiological Society on Banting and Best's discovery of insulin, while working in Macleod's labratory in Toronto.

Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.

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Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.

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