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Banting, Frederick Grant (1891 - 1941)

Physiologist

Born: 14 November 1891 Canada. Died: 21 February 1941.

(Sir) Frederick Grant Banting, together with Charles Best, isolated insulin from the pancreas in 1921 and showed its use in the treatment of diabetes. This won him a Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1923.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003356. [ Details ]

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