Sir Frederick Banting
Life and Career
Research
Awards
Degrees
Source - MLA Format
Eurone, Daniel. "Frederick G. Banting - Biography." Nobelprize.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 June 2012. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-bio.html>.
- Sir Frederick Banting – credited for the creation of Insulin
- Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian Scientist who was born in 1891, Alliston, Ontario
- He was born into a hard-working farm family, and dreamed of becoming a successful doctor
- He struggled throughout his high-school career, but eventually got admission into the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine in 1912 after years of perseverance
- During World War One, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps
- He returned to Canada in 1919, and he finished his training as an Orthopaedic Surgeon
- He died in 1941, at the age of 49
Research
- He was working as a part-time instructor in the University of Toronto when something he read in a medical journal gave him an idea, which he immediately wrote down for research
- He wanted to learn more about the effects of isolating the internal secretion of the pancreas
- He remembered from his lectures that the pancreas were responsible for regulating sugar in the bloodstream, so if he managed to isolate the secretion, he believed he could cure diabetes
- In May 1921, the University gave Banting approval to conduct his research and experiments
- Few believed he would succeed since many scientists had failed to cure diabetes, but eventually, Banting's team was able to cure a dog of diabetes
- They injected the pancreatic secretions into a diabetic dog, and his blood sugar levels were successfully lowered
- In 1922, Banting got a chance to try his Insulin on a human subject
- He visited a hospital and injected Insulin into a 14-year-old boy who was dying of diabetes
- The insulin successfully lowered the boy’s blood sugar, and Frederick Banting was credited with one of the most significant discoveries of all time which is used to this day to save millions of lives
Awards
- Nobel Prize in physiology – 1923
- Reeve Prize of the University of Toronto - 1922
- One of the last group of Canadians to be knighted by King George V
Degrees
- University of Western Ontario – 1924
- University of Toronto – 1924
- Queen’s University – 1924
- University of Michigan – 1924
- Yale University – 1924
- University of the State of New York – 1931
- McGill University - 1939
Source - MLA Format
Eurone, Daniel. "Frederick G. Banting - Biography." Nobelprize.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 June 2012. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-bio.html>.