Barron, Moses, 1883-,

Moses Barron, M.D. (1911) University of Minnesota. Clinical professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota; published landmark articles that lead to the isolation of insulin. Moses Barron was born in 1884 in Russia and emigrated to Minnesota in 1889. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his medical degree in 1911. He practiced medicine and served as a clinical professor of medicine at the University until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1952. During World War I, he joined the Army Medical Reserves Corps and served with the University's Base Hospital No. 26 in France. In 1920 he published a landmark article that gave Dr. F. G. Banting the idea that led to the isolation of insulin. Moses Barron died on December 22, 1974.