Frederick Banting

Born: November 14, 1891
Died: February 21, 1941
Place of Birth: Alliston, Ontario

• Frederick Banting, along with a colleague, J.J.R. MacLeod, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923.

• He was the youngest of six children and failed his first year in Arts at the University of Toronto.

• Banting then switched to Medicine and graduated in 1916.

• He was wounded in World War I and was given a medal for valour.

• After the war, Frederick Banting enrolled in work towards qualifying to be an orthopedic surgeon.

• Banting and another researcher, C.H. Best, conducted experiments leading to the discovery of insulin.

• Insulin was an inportant life saving remedy for Diabetes Mellitus.

• Banting split his share of Nobel Prize money with Best after a disageement with MacLeod.

• He later was appointed Professor of Medical Research at the University of Toronto.

• In 1934, he was knighted and became known as "Sir Frederick Banting".

• Frederick Banting died in 1941 as a result of an airplane accident in Newfoundland while on a medical mission.

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