Frederick Banting

Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian physician, pharmacologist, researcher, and writer. He was educated at the University of Toronto and worked for the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario. His professional fields included physiology and pharmacology. Banting participated in World War I and World War II, holding the military rank of Major.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. His notable works include *Diabetes and insulin*, *The history of insulin*, and *The internal secretion of the pancreas*.

Banting was born on November 14, 1891, in Alliston. He died on February 21, 1941, in Musgrave Harbour due to an aviation accident. He is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. His works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Royal Society, and the Nobel Laureates collection.