Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive Narrow Road To Forneth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive on the narrow road to Forneth, a tiny village in Clunie parish, six miles West of Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Near the village are the foundations of what is believed to have been a castle used by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scotland, as a base for hunting in the nearby royal forest of Clunie. John James Rickard Macleod, born 6 September 1876, died 16 March 1935, was born in Clunie, he was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.

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