Approximately 30.3 million Americans are currently living with diabetes. Most of these individuals rely on insulin to moderate their health. Before insulin, there was not a proper way to manage diabetes and the disease was often deadly. Frederick Sanger helped develop the insulin that we know today, which earned him two Nobel Prizes in the field of chemistry.
Frederick Sanger, the biochemist who developed insulin, was born on August 18th, 1918 to a decently wealthy family in Rendcomb, a small village in Gloucestershire, England. Frederick had two siblings; Theodore, who was a year older, and May, who was five years younger. Frederick, along with his siblings, were brought up as Quakers by his father, Frederick Sanger, and his wife, Cicely.
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His father was a medical practitioner, which may have contributed to his passion of biochemistry and understanding of science. Starting at the age of 5, Sanger was educated by a governess at his home.. In 1927, he attended Downs School, a residential school which was ran by Quakers and their ideals. He found the transition from homeschool to prep school “traumatic”.Later on, he transferred to a new school in Dorset called Bryanston, which used the Dalton system.
The ideals here were more liberal and appealed more to him and it was here that he really developed his interest towards the field of science. It was also his brother’s interest in nature from an early age that contributed to his interest. In his final school year, he was able to spend time in the lab because he had attained his School Certificate the year prior. This allowed him to closely work with his chemistry teacher, Henry Geoffrey Ordish, in the chemistry lab. Working in the lab with Ordish rather than studying books fueled his passion to start a scientific career. Before leaving for university, Sanger spent half of a term in a German school called Schule Schloss Salem during the beginning of the Nazi era. He recalled having to stand for the Heil Hitler every morning and listening to the headmaster read Mein Kampf with their morning prayers, which slightly upset Sanger due to his Quaker beliefs. After this experience, he proceeded to attend St. John’s College at Cambridge, the same university that his father had attended. He originally planned to follow in his father’s footsteps by pursuing a medical
degree, but quickly abandoned this thought after he saw how much time and effort his father put into his work. He focused his studies on physics and chemistry and he later steered his degree in the path of biochemistry after his tutor, Ernest Baldwin, suggested that “exacting scientific methods of chemistry could open up new understandings of biological systems”.
Michael Moscherosch was born on November 23rd, 1962, in Stuttgart Germany. He and his younger brother were born into a working class family, with his mother working as a full-time accountant and his father working as a car mechanic. The Moscherosch family stayed in Stuttgart for since its inception, the families ancestral roots stem as far back as the 1600s and stayed within Stuttgart and the villages surrounding the area. Michael as a child was described to be scholastic and performed well in his school. In Germany, instead of there being an elementary, middle, and high school, there is a primary school and then secondary schools prioritizing certain fields; some of these fields include engineering, trade schools, and “gymnasiums” which closely represent the structure of our American high schools. Upon completing his secondary school education, Michael began studying Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, working at night during the week to fund his education.
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This specific argument is exemplified by the fictional University of Winnemac, where there is an atmosphere that is relatively hostile towards the research Gottlieb and Martin wish to pursue. Gottlieb is generally dismissed as “unconscious of the world,” “an old laboratory plug,” “a ‘crapehanger’ who wasted time destroying the theories of others instead of making new ones of his own” (Lewis 10, 35, 9). He is forced to waste his time teaching elementary bacteriology to students who are not interested, while Arrowsmith is forced to waste his time taking classes unrelated to the research he loves. Martin’s lack of interest in his classes seems to say that rather than take a wide variety of science classes, medical students who wish to pursue research should be allowed only to take classes needed for research. Lewis’ portrayal of Gottlieb’s lack of passion for teaching insinuates that teaching duties intruded into the time scientists had to do important research.... ...
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Achievements Due to his bravery in the battle of Cambrai, Frederick Banting was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. Frederick Banting received the Reeve Prize from the University of Toronto in 1922. Frederick Banting’s greatest achievement was the discovery of insulin. Frederick Banting and John James Rickard Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1923. Frederick Banting shared half of his prize money with Charles Best.
Insulin is by far the most influential discovery in Canadian and world history. In Canada in 2008/2009 there were 2.4 million people living with diabetes and there are many more today. With out the discovery of insulin many people would not be able to live full lives. However, the discovery of insulin was not just an accomplishment Fredrick Banting and his colleagues had developed in the 1920s, it was a product of timing and luck on Banting’s part and the idea that he took from others was the product that changed the century.
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All praises bestowed on her, I received as made a possession of my own. We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.” Victor attended Ingolstadt University where he studied modern science and was able master all of what his teachers had to offer within two years.
An estimate of 171 million people have diabetes and that number is expected to double by 2030. Diabetes affects how your body uses glucose. Unmanaged, this can lead to rapid dehydration, coma, and death. However today one can manage diabetes by controlling one’s diet and if necessary taking injections of insulin.
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Before his depression began, Frankenstein wanted to expand his knowledge about science and natural philosophy during the prime of his life. By doing so, Frankenstein’s father, Alphonse, wanted him to dedicate his time at the University of Ingolstadt. While at the University, Frankenstein began to pursue
Victor Frankenstein finds himself exploring the world of science against his fathers wishes but he has an impulse to go forward in his education through university. During this time any form of science was little in knowledge especially the chemistry which was Victors area if study. Victor pursues to go farther than the normal human limits of society. “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (Chapter 4). He soon finds the answer he was looking for, the answer of life. He becomes obsessed with creating a human being. With his knowledge he believes it should be a perfe...
The first evidence of diabetes was found on an early Egyptian manuscript from 1500 BCE, however; it is only in the last 200 years that we understand what is happening at the cellular level in a diabetic individual (Polansky, 2012). We now know that diabetes is a complex disorder of genetic, chemical, and lifestyle factors that contribute to the body’s inability to utilize glucose for energy and cellular functions (ADA, 2013).
Since a boy, Frankenstein’s passion is to explore science and that which cannot be seen or understood in the field. He spent the later part of his childhood reading the works of commonly outdated scientists whose lofty goals included fantastic, imaginative desires to “penetrate the secrets of nature” (Vol. 1, Ch. 2). While he was told that these authors predated more real and practical scientists, he became intrigued by their ambitions, and devoted himself to succeeding where they had failed. When Victor is criticized at college for his previous studies in obsolete research, he takes after one of his professors, M. Waldman, in studying chemistry. In a lecture, Waldman tells of ancient teachers in chemistry who promised miracles and sought after “unlimited powers” (Vol. 1...
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