Banting

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Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting

Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891 – 1941) was a Canadian physiologist and surgeon. Whilst working in Toronto, Canada, with the assistance of Charles Herbert Best (1899 – 1978) and James Bertram Collip (1892 – 1965), Banting discovered insulin 1921–22. Banting received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923, shared with John James Richard Macleod (1876 – 1935) [1].

References

  1. R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 (April 1978): 44-6.