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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1941 · United States
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1948 · United Kingdom
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1889–1964 · India
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1972 · United States
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1975 · United States
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