Ban·ting (b n t ng), Sir Frederick Grant 1891-1941. Canadian physiologist. He shared a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery and successful clinical application of insulin. |
Banting, Sir Frederick G.
Etymology: Canadian physician, 1891-1941
co-winner, with John J. Macleod, of the 1923 Nobel prize for medicine and physiology for their research, with the Canadian physiologist Charles H. Best, showing the link between the pancreas and insulin in the control of diabetes. See also Macleod, John J.
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