What nationality was John Macleod?
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Scottish-born John Macleod was a Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and co-discoverer of insulin. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Frederick Banting for their groundbreaking research on the hormone's role in regulating blood sugar levels and its therapeutic potential in treating diabetes.
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