Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941 · aged 50
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
- Born
- 14 Nov 1891 · Alliston
- Died
- 21 Feb 1941 · Musgrave Harbour
Life timeline
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- 14 Nov 1891BornBorn in Alliston
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1923AwardJohn Scott Award
- 1923AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1927AwardCameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
- 1930AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
- 1931AwardFlavelle Medal
- 1935AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1935AwardKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 1936AwardF.N.G. Starr Award
- 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
- 21 Feb 1941DiedDied in Musgrave Harbour
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1891 – 1941).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
Biography
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) 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.
Banting and his student, Charles Best, isolated insulin at the University of Toronto in the lab of Scottish physiologist John Macleod. When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Banting shared the honours and award money with Best. That same year, the Government of Canada granted Banting a lifetime annuity to continue his work. He is the youngest Nobel laureate for Physiology/Medicine, at 32.
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