Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old youth dying of diabetes, was given the first insulin injection on January 11, 1922. It saved his life. The Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923 was awarded to Frederick Grant Banting and John James Richard McLeod for the discovery of insulin. Thompson lived another 13 years because he was in the right place at the right time.
And I was a day ahead of myself. This is a January 11 "frozen in time" event, not January 10 as I said yesterday.
And I was a day ahead of myself. This is a January 11 "frozen in time" event, not January 10 as I said yesterday.