Sir Frederick Banting: Insulin Discovery
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Posted by Tel Asiado Nov 14, 2008 |
This day, November 14, is the birthday of Frederick Banting (1891-1941), Canadian medical scientist and physician. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work in extracting the hormone insulin from the pancreas, and making it possible to give insulin to diabetes mellitus sufferers.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario, Canada on November 14, 1891 and died on February 21, 1941 in Newfoundland, Canada, at the age of 49. He was educated at the University of Toronto.
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