Banting insulin biography

Sir Frederick G. Banting is a Canadian physician-scientist and painter famous for the co-discovery of insulin. Banting and his team were the first to administer insulin to successfully treat patients living with diabetes.

He won a Nobel Prize for his work and is the youngest Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine at age 32.

Banting grew up on a farm in Alliston, Ontario. Following his father’s footsteps, he studied theology to become a Christian minister.

Due to his poor grades, his interests shifted and he transferred to medical school.

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Upon earning his degree, he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps to serve in France during the First World War. In the 1918 Battle of Cambrai, he cared for wounded men for sixteen hours despite his own injuries. He was later awarded the Military Cross for heroism.

Banting returned to Canada after the war to complete his surgical training in Toronto. He opened his own medical practice in London, Ontario and lectured part-time at the University of W