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
Charles R. Drew
Daniel Williams
Shinya Yamanaka
Albert Sabin
Chaim Weizmann
Gary Kildall