Charles Brenton Huggins
Born: September 22, 1901
Died: January 12, 1997
Nationality: Canadian
Occupation: Scientist
Biography: Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals.