Charles herbert best biography on george

BEST, CHARLES HERBERT, physiologist, medical researcher, and university teacher; b. 27 Feb. 1899 in Pembroke, Maine, second child and only son of Herbert Huestis Best and Luella May Fisher (known as Lulu Newcomb); m. 3 Sept.

1924 Margaret Hooper Mahon in Toronto, and they had two sons; d. there 31 March 1978.

His involvement in the discovery of insulin was both the high point of Charles H.

Charles herbert best biography on george

Best’s life and the source of a lifetime of regret that he was not given the recognition he thought he deserved.

The son of a Canadian-born country doctor practising in Maine, Charley, as he was called by his family, was educated locally, took his final year of high school in Toronto, where he had relatives, and entered the University of Toronto in 1916.

At the beginning of his second year in a general arts course he transferred into the honours physiology and biochemistry program. He interrupted his education to serve in the Canadian army late in World