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]

Notes

  1. E. Miller, The Sun, (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.