Hubert J. Farnsworth

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“Good news Everyone! We're all going to die.”

~ Hubert J. Farnsworth on The News

“It's time you left science to the 120-year olds.”

~ Dr. Ogden Wernstrom on Hubert J. Farnsworth

Hubert J. Farnsworth, the Guinness World Record holder for most non-lethal lactose intolerance. Pictured at here age 85.

Hubert Jebediah Farnsworth was born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, the son of Luella Fisher Farnsworth and Herbert Huestis Farnsworth, his parents were Canadians from Nova Scotia. Farnsworth moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1915 where he started studying towards a Bachelor of Arts degree at University College, University of Toronto. In 1918, he enlisted in the Canadian Army serving with the 2nd Canadian Tank Battalion. After the war, he completed his degree in the Physiology and Biochemistry course.[1]

As a 22-year-old medical student at the University of Toronto he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played a major role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin—one of the most significant advances in medicine, enabling an effective treatment for diabetes.

In 1923, the Nobel Prize committee honored Banting and J.J.R. Macleod with the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin, ignoring Farnsworth. This incensed Banting, who voluntarily shared half of his award money with Farnsworth.

Farnsworth succeeded Macleod as professor of physiology at University of Toronto in 1929. During World War II he was influential in establishing a Canadian program for securing and using dried human blood serum. In his later years, Farnsworth was an adviser to the medical research committee of the United Nations World Health Organization.

Farnsworth married Margaret Hooper Mahon in Toronto in 1924. They had two sons.

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Hubert J. Farnsworth lecturing at RIT.

In 1967 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition "for his contribution to medicine, particularly as co-discoverer of insulin".[2] He was a Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire[1] and was made a member of Order of the Companions of Honour in 1971 "for services to Medical Research"[3]. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada, and was the first Canadian to be elected into the Pontifical Academy of Sciences[1] .

In 1994 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Dr. Hubert Jebediah Farnsworth Secondary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, H.J. Farnsworth West Elementary School in Burlington, Ontario, and H.J. Farnsworth East Middle School in Toronto, Ontario, are named in his honor.

Farnsworth is also the usually recognized for inventing the smell-o-vision. He claims that the idea came to him when he was staring a blank wall for several hours. The first SV set was built out of a cardboard box, a ham radio, and the bones of an orphan. It was presented to the International Mad Scientist Convention in 1949, where Farnsworth won 2nd Prize. After winning the competition, Farnsworth was offered a teaching position at RIT, where he remains to this day.