Charles Best (* 27 February 1899 in west Pembroke, Maine, the USA; "† 31. March 1978 in Toronto, Canada) was a physiologist and biochemist. It applies for that together with Frederick Banting as Miterfinder insulin (after Nicolae Paulescu).

Born in west Pembroke in the year 1899 it enjoyed its training at the university in Toronto.1921, when, he began medical student its work with Frederick Grant Banting, which led finally 1923 to the Nobelpreis.

The honor was lent however Frederick Grant Banting and the Scottish physiologist John James Richard MacLeod and not to Charles Best (and the Canadian biochemist James Bertram Collip, which developed an important cleaning method) whereupon Banting and MacLeod delivered half of their premiums in each case around so their "“solidarity"” and showed acknowledgment. Thus the price was never officially presented to him.

See also: Nicolae Paulescu

In the year 1923 the "“Banting Best institute"” was created for medical research at the university in Toronto. After the death of Banting Best became in the year 1941 a director.

There it predominantly worked on Spezielgebiete toward muscle and sport physiology and carbohydrate metabolisms and was considerably involved in many single discoveries.

In the advanced age he suffered from diabetes mellitus and died at the age of 79 years, as one of the most important Canadian researchers 20. Century, in Toronto.

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