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Nicolae Constantin Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist and politician and the first to publish on the discovery of insulin, which he had called pancreine. While waiting for approval of his patents in 1922, Frederick Banting and Charles Best also isolated insulin overseas and administered it for the first time into a human patient to successfully treat diabetes.

Banting and Best were awarded the Nobel Prize the following year, while Paulescu’s claims of being the first to discover insulin were rejected. 

Paulescu was born in Bucharest on November 8, 1860 to a merchant named Costache Paulescu and his wife, Maria.

He was the eldest of four children. At an early age, he learned French, Latin, and ancient Greek and became fluent in all three languages. He had a natural gift for the sciences, particularly physics and chemistry.

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In 1888, he graduated from high school and moved to Paris for medical school. He received his medical degree in 1897. He then worked at the Hôtel-Dieu de