Friday, January 05, 2007

Insulin Voted #1 Canadian Invention

 

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.


  1. insulin

  2. telephone

  3. lightbulb

  4. five pin bowling

  5. wonderbra

  6. pacemaker

  7. Robertson screw

  8. zipper

  9. electric wheelchair

  10. poutine


4 comments:

  1. Personally I'd rank the telephone over insulin. Insulin wasn't so much "invented" as "discovered".

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  2. You think the telephone is more important than poutine? What are you thinking .... :-)

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  3. And where's the famous Canadian robot arm for the Space Shuttle? Doesn't that deserve to be on the list?

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  4. Yes 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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