Frederick Banting

Frederick Banting (Frederick Grant Banting) a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, field surgeon.

Co-discoverer of insulin.

First Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin, shared with John James Rickard Macleod.

He served as a field surgeon during World War I.

Knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He served as vice-president of the Diabetic Association.
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