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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

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy