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Harold Himsworth

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British physician and medical scientist who in 1936 published an influential paper in The Lancet distinguishing insulin-sensitive from insulin-insensitive diabetes, the distinction underlying the modern classification of type 2 and type 1 diabetes.

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Birth Year
1905 1
Birth Date
1905-05-19 1
Death Year
1993 1
Death Date
1993-11-01 1
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1. Wikipedia: Harold Himsworth
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His early involvement in medical research (especially of diabetes and later of liver disease) would lead to an important 1936 paper in The Lancet, distinguishing the two main types of diabetes.
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1. Wikipedia: Harold Himsworth
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Diabetes Australia: 1936, A Proposal to Separate Diabetes into Type 1 and Type 2
Diabetes AustraliaDiscoveries: Type 2 Diabetes, 1936 proposal pageView the Source
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