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Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (sh)




born Nov. 14, 1891, Alliston, Ont., Can.
died Feb. 21, 1941, Nfd.

Canadian physician.

He taught at the University of Toronto from 1923. With Charles Best, he was the first to obtain a pancreatic extract of insulin (1921), which, in the laboratory of J.J.R. Macleod, they isolated in a form effective against diabetes. Banting and Macleod received a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin; Banting voluntarily shared his portion of the prize with Best.