Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891–1941)
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- Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting 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.
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