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.

External links

• "Sharpey-Schafer, Sir Edward Albert" from Encyclopædia Britannica

English physiologists | University of Edinburgh alumni | Natives of Middlesex | 1850 births | 1935 deaths