Frederick Banting
Academic
1891 – 1941
Who was Frederick Banting?
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on humans.
In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr. Charles Best. As of September 2011, Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine. The Canadian government gave him a lifetime annuity to work on his research. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V. In 2004, Frederick Banting was voted fourth place on The Greatest Canadian.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1891
Alliston - Also known as
- Dr. Frederick Banting
- Religion
- United Church of Canada
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Feb 21, 1941
Dominion of Newfoundland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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