Frederick Banting
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiol
Banting in 1923
The Banting farm is preserved under the Ontario Heritage Act, with a commemorative plaque from the government
The Banting children, c. 1893
Banting (left), aged 9 or 10, and his brother, Thompson, c. 1900
Charles Herbert Best, was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. He served as the chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical R
Frederick Banting
…of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod. Banting and his student, Charles Best, isolated insulin at the University of Toronto in the lab of Scottish physiologist John Macleod. When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in…
Best, c. 1959
C. H. Best and F. G. Banting ca. 1924
The gravestone of Best (section 29) in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto