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Frederick Banting

1891 - 1941

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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (; November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod. Banting and his student, Charles Best, isolated insulin at the University of Toronto in the lab of Scottish physiologist John Macleod. When he and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Banting shared the honours and award money with Best. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Banting is the 107th most popular physician (down from 72nd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Physician.

Frederick Banting was a Canadian physician and scientist who, along with Charles Best, discovered the hormone insulin in 1921.

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Among physicians, Frederick Banting ranks 107 out of 726. Before him are George Minot, Michael DeBakey, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Ulf von Euler, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Cornelius Jansen. After him are Harvey J. Alter, Ctesias, Werner Forssmann, James Parkinson, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Albert Sabin.

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Among people born in 1891, Frederick Banting ranks 24. Before him are Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, Fritz Todt, Genrikh Yagoda, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Osip Mandelstam. After him are Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, Frank Costello, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Edward Bernays, and Charley Patton. Among people deceased in 1941, Frederick Banting ranks 25. Before him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Marina Tsvetaeva, Émile Picard, Hans Spemann, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, and Alexej von Jawlensky. After him are Prajadhipok, Edwin S. Porter, Ernst Udet, Werner Sombart, Werner Mölders, and Kurt Koffka.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Frederick Banting ranks 32 out of 1,622. Before him are Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Ralph M. Steinman (1943), Eric Berne (1910), and David Johnston (1941). After him are Bryan Adams (1959), Neil Young (1945), Sidney Altman (1939), Willard Boyle (1924), Henry Taube (1915), and Paul Anka (1941).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Frederick Banting ranks 1. After him are Oswald Avery (1877), David H. Hubel (1926), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), Norman Bethune (1890), William Osler (1849), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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