Frank Sinatra helps us mark the hundredth year anniversary of the first person receiving insulin.

In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from diabetes in a Toronto hospital, receive an injection of insulin and was literally brought back to life.

By 1923, insulin had become widely available, saving countless lives around the world, and Frederick Banting and J.J. R. Macleod, the two scientists who began preparations for the first insulin treatment to be administered to a human, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. To this day, it’s still the quickest that a Nobel Prize was awarded following the discovery of a medical breakthrough.

Frank Sinatra was an American singer and motion-picture actor and one of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry.

He is responsible for bringing jazz out of itself and into popular music and making it stick. Instead of being the singer with the band, he made himself into an instrumentalist—of the voice.

Many considered Frank Sinatra to have been the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music.

Throughout the podcast, we will be featuring music from The Voice Of Frank Sinatra courtesy of SONY Music.