Frederick Banting
14 November 1891 – 21 February 1941
Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician who co-discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes. For this work he shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate in that category at the time. He died in a plane crash in 1941 while on wartime service.
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Life events
Born on a farm as the youngest of five children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted his medical degree during the First World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgServed on the Western Front and was wounded at the Battle of Cambrai.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked with Charles Best in J. J. R. Macleod's laboratory to isolate insulin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgInsulin was administered to diabetic patient Leonard Thompson with dramatic effect.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared the prize with J. J. R. Macleod for the discovery of insulin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived a knighthood for his contributions to medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgKilled when his aircraft crashed while he was on a wartime mission.
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