Banting, Sir Frederick

Name:
Banting, Sir Frederick
Detailed information:
(1891–1941). A native of Ontario, Canada, Banting did his most important work in endocrinology. His brilliant research culminated in the preparation of the antidiabetic hormone that he called insulin, derived from the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas. He received the Nobel Prize in medicine for this work together with MacLeod of the University of Toronto. In 1930, the Banting Institute was founded in Toronto. He was killed in an airplane crash.