biography
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Banting, Sir Frederick Grant
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| male
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| lived:
| (1891–1941)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, the discoverer of insulin, born in Alliston, Ontario, SE Canada. He studied medicine at Toronto University and later became professor there (1923). Working under J J R Macleod, in 1922 he discovered (with his assistant Charles H Best) the hormone insulin, used in the control of diabetes. For this discovery he was jointly awarded, with Macleod, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923, voluntarily sharing his own part of the award with Best. He established the Banting Research Foundation in 1924 and the Banting Institute at Toronto in 1930. He was knighted in 1934, and died in a plane crash during a war mission. |
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