Frederick Banting Full Name: Frederick Grant Banting Profession: Medical Scientist and Physician Nationality: Canadian Biography: Co-discoverer of insulin, Banting won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine at just 32 years of age. The youngest Nobel laureate in medicine in history. Born: November 14, 1891 Birthplace: Alliston, Ontario, Canada Generation: Lost Generation Star Sign: Scorpio Died: February 21, 1941 (aged 49) Cause of Death: Plane crash Married Life 1924-06-04 Physician Frederick Banting (32) weds Marion Robertson Historical Events 1921-07-27 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto 1922-01-11 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, when Frederick Banting injects fellow Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14 1934-06-04 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted Famous Physicians Charles R. Drew Daniel Williams Shinya Yamanaka Famous Scientists Albert Sabin Chaim Weizmann Gary Kildall