ScienceBorn November 14, 1891

Frederick Banting

Canadian medical scientist and doctor

Born
November 14, 1891
Died
February 21, 1941 (aged 49)
Known as
physician, pharmacologist, researcher, writer, physiologist

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 Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.

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