CBC viewers have voted insulin the Greatest Canadian Invention. The plaque is on the side of the Medical Sciences Building where I work.Banting and Macleod got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923. Collip and Best were excluded in one of the most notorious omissions in Nobel history.
The top ten inventions were covered on the TV show. What about the other nine? They're almost as exciting (see below). Personally, I think #10 should have been ranked much higher.
- insulin
- telephone
- lightbulb
- five pin bowling
- wonderbra
- pacemaker
- Robertson screw
- zipper
- electric wheelchair
- poutine
Personally I'd rank the telephone over insulin. Insulin wasn't so much "invented" as "discovered".
ReplyDeleteYou think the telephone is more important than poutine? What are you thinking .... :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd where's the famous Canadian robot arm for the Space Shuttle? Doesn't that deserve to be on the list?
ReplyDeleteYes it does. I don't know why it didn't make the top ten. I would have put it right behind poutine.
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