- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:37, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that Iain Macintyre's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland? Source: "Macintyre's group demonstrated that the hormone was produced in the parafollicular cells of the thyroid..."source Martin
- ALT1:... that Iain Macintyre's group was the first to sequence the hormone calcitonin? Source: "...resulted in Macintyre's laboratory purifying and then sequencing both porcine calcitonin and human calciton" source Martin
- Reviewed: Ba_Than_(surgeon)
- Comment: Although my username is similar to the subject of the article I am not in any way related to or connected with the subject
Created by Iainmacintyre (talk). Self-nominated at 13:29, 29 June 2020 (UTC).
- Reviewing...new enough, long enough, well sourced, QPQ done. Hook in article, cited and in source. Will complete soon. Whispyhistory (talk) 12:38, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
No copyvio issues. Hooks are in the article and followed by citation to a reference that requires a subscription. The hook facts are sound and are present in several other sources I found. I prefer the proposed hook.Whispyhistory (talk) 11:51, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 | A fact from Iain Macintyre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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