Best, Charles Herbert

Insulin was discovered at the University of Toronto, Canada, in the summer of 1921 by Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best. (http //www.discoveryofinsulin. com/ Introduction.htm)... 

There was scientific evidence that could be used against women s advancement, especially the theory of evolution. For example, the sociologist Herbert Spencer had concluded that the difference between the sexes could best be understood in terms of a somewhat earlier-arrest of individual evolution in women than men. 79 In fact, many scientists of the time had discovered proof in their research of women s intellectual inadequacies 80 and, of particular importance, Charles Darwin himself had found scientific evidence of female inferiority It is generally admitted that with women the powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a past and lower state of civilization. 81... 

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