Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

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Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850, Hornsey, Middlesex – 1935) was an English physiologist who coined the word "insulin" after theorising that a single substance from the pancreas was responsible for diabetes mellitus.

Schafer's Method of artificial respiration is named for him.

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