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Frederick Banting

1891–1941 · 20th century · Also known as Sir Frederick Banting

Frederick Banting was a Canadian physician who, with Charles Best and colleagues at the University of Toronto, isolated insulin in 1921–1922, turning diabetes from a fatal disease into a treatable one. He and J. J. R. Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923, and he shared his prize money with Best. He died in an air crash in 1941.

Frederick Banting
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