Frederick Banting :Canadian physician and scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for discovering insulin.
Frederick Grant Banting Birth : 14 November 1891 in Alliston Death : 21 February 1941 at Musgrave Harbor Funeral : Cemetery Mount Pleasant Nationality : Canada Education : University of Toronto Occupation : Doctor and pharmacologist Member : Of Royal Society, Leopoldina and Royal Society of Canada . Biography Frederick Banting is considered the discoverer of insulin, together with the student Charles Herbert Best. Their work during the summer of 1921 enabled the rapid preparation of purified insulin for the treatment of diabetes, thanks to the work of chemist James Collip, under the direction of John James Richard McLeod, all at the University of Toronto. The first patient to receive insulin was Leonard Thomson (a), a 14-year-old boy, on January 11, 1922. If this first atte...