1921–22General sourceWell documented
Insulin saves diabetics
On the timeline · around 1921–22 ·
What happened
Banting and Macleod's team isolated insulin; a dying diabetic teenager recovered within days of the first injections.
Why it matters
Turned type 1 diabetes from a death sentence into a manageable condition — one of medicine's fastest triumphs.
Sources
- The Nobel Foundation. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1923 (insulin) (1923) · General source